In the land before time

Pangaea · **Reply #2040 on:** February 24, 2011, 12:52:02 AM

Pangaea smirked at Daniel’s greeting. ’The wrong flesh’, he thought. Witty. “Well, uh, nice to meet ya,” he said, lifting a hand in a sort of timid half-wave.

Guido, meanwhile, was becoming more and more bewildered by the exchanges between Daniel, Sparky, and Nana. From his perspective, it was like they were talking in code. As usual, he turned to Pangaea for answers. “Seriously,” he whispered in a voice that he hoped was too quiet for the others to hear, “why do they have such weird names? Some of them even have two names! What’s up with that?!”

“Umm…it’s hard to explain,” Pangaea whispered back, “I’ve never really understood the reasons for the names myself. But as for why they have two names…well, I’d have to explain the GOF and how the Internet works to really get into detail, but suffice to say one name is like a nickname that they go by on the GOF, and the other is more like their real name.”

Guido seemed satisfied with that answer. “Oh, I see,” he said, nodding. “Hey, Petrie,” he greeted the arriving flyer.

Pangaea snapped to attention when he noticed Petrie, immediately worrying how the panicky flyer would react to Sparky and her giant claws. “Ah…Petrie,” he said quickly, “before you freak out, that’s Sparky, and she’s perfectly friendly.”óhe gestured to the Therizinosaurusó“She’s a longclaw, and I know it’s a little hard to believe, but she’s a leafeater. Just wanted to make sure you knew that.”

Kor · **Reply #2041 on:** February 24, 2011, 02:30:13 AM

"Really? Me no notice till you mention them." Petrie said with some fear in his voice, who had been looking mainly at his friends in his greeting of them and was going to ask what everyone was doing and had not noticed the dinosaur with the large claws.
He shrank away in fear then went to hide behind Cera's frill, barely peaking over the top.

LBTDiclonius · **Reply #2042 on:** February 24, 2011, 02:32:46 AM

Nana gasped as she saw the flyer come out. This was turning out to be the greatest day of her life! Well, almost. She had now seen two of the original gnag in one day. Then, she saw he was scared of Sparky. She sighed, why was everyone always afraid of her? Oh yeah, because of her claws.

FlipperBoidSkua · **Reply #2043 on:** February 24, 2011, 02:09:25 PM

"Why must I strike fear in the hearts of many?" Sparky said playfully before offering Petrie a friendly greeting. "Hi. I'm Sparky. It's nice to meet ya and don't worry, I really am a harmless Leaf Eater. See?"

Once more she demonstrated the primary use of her claws, eating some more leaves. Still needs salad dressing.... "Or better yet, sugar." she muttered softly to herself, always having to add sugar to just about everything, before glancing to the others so not to be rude at having her attention temporarily elsewhere. "Excuse me for a moment. Carry on with your convos; I have experimenting to do."

With that, she reached up and grabbed a nearby Tree Sweet carefully before squeezing some of its juice over the patch of leaves she had her eye on. Once they were fairly coated, she took another bite. Much better! She loves mix-matching her foods and drinks, just to see how it'll turn out. Plus, she never realized how hungry she was till now. So she took a moment to 'nom nom' on the fruit-coated leaves.

Kor · **Reply #2044 on:** February 24, 2011, 10:28:50 PM

"Me glad you leaf eater." Petrie said nodding his head. He saw what she was doing. "Me never try that. But me did put a little stinky flower on a leaf before me eated it." Petrie said thinking of the island where they had encountered Chomper the 2nd time.

Pangaea · **Reply #2045 on:** February 25, 2011, 07:38:50 AM

As he watched Sparky’s novel method of adding flavor to her food, two things crossed Pangaea’s mind: first, he hadn’t noticed that there was a fruit-bearing tree so close by; second, that the last thing he’d eaten had been the fish at Anna’s campfire, prior to his ordeal with the sharpteeth. He was thirsty as well; he hadn’t had so much as a sip of water since the previous day, and all the talking he had been doing had made his mouth very dry.

“Say, uh…Sparky?” he said. “D’you suppose you could pick one of those tree sweets for me, please? I’m starved.”

FlipperBoidSkua · **Reply #2046 on:** February 25, 2011, 09:28:06 PM

Sparky smiled at Petrie's reference to the 5th movie and Pangaea's request. "No prob." She carefully plucked a fruit before pausing and glancing at the group, counting them up before getting the appropriate number of fruits. Thinking of Guido too, she bit into a small branch with caterpillar-covered leaves as well. Sorry tree! she thought before snapping it off.

Wandering back to the others, she piled the Tree Sweets in front to them and placed the Crawler-branch by Guido. She beamed playfully. "Bon AppÈtit! Any of you want some leaves with that?"

Redtooth101 · **Reply #2047 on:** February 25, 2011, 09:41:26 PM

"I remember you" Daniel said to Sparky and then looked at Nana. "Your new though, but all the same it's a pleasure to meet all of you" he said with a friendly smile. "Oh and by the way Guido, if Pangeae doesn't have time I wouldn't mind explaining some of those things to you, although you might just get more confused" he said to Guido and then chuckled a little.

LBTDiclonius · **Reply #2048 on:** February 25, 2011, 09:51:28 PM

"Guilty as charged. I'm one of the newer members, but anyway, it's a pleasure to meet you too," Nana remarked. she knew that the monent she said her username, he probably wouldn't recognize it, but she was expecting it so it wasn't all that bad. Then, she laughed at his remark about getting guido even more confused at explaing, "his list of stuff that needs to be explained," or so she called it.

The Chronicler · **Reply #2049 on:** February 25, 2011, 10:30:07 PM

Chronicler looked outside the cave and saw the markings in the dirt that Claw had pointed out. Recognizing what the markings were, Chronicler couldn't help but chuckle at the thought.

"I guess I forgot to mention that on day 1 I taught Ruby how to write, but as you can see I decided to teach her the Bionicle alphabet instead of the regular one, kind of as a secret form of communication for just the two of us."

After laughing at the ridiculousness of being the only one who could read Ruby's writing, Chronicler decided to get closer to the message in the dirt and read what it said. He quickly noticed one obvious thing about the message. "Yeesh, it's loaded with spelling errors, but... I think I can understand what she's trying to say here." He read through the message a few times to make sure he understood what it was supposed to say.

"It says that... Ruby is at her thinking place, and that she'll be back soon." Having read the message as best as he could, Chronicler simply shrugged and said, "I guess there's nothing we can do now but wait. I'm going to get something to eat." He then left the area and headed towards the berry bush he remembered getting breakfast from yesterday.
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Meanwhile, Ruby sat alone at her thinking place, thinking over the significance of her odd sleep-story. "Why would I be alive by following Chronicler, but everyone else would not be alive by not following Chronicler?" she wondered. "Well, Chronicler knows a lot of things that even I don't know, but so do all the other new people. Then again, I also saw those new people in that sleep-story. Hmm... maybe Chronicler tried to warn them of something very bad, but nobody but me believed him. I know I would believe him, but why would nobody else believe him? What could Chronicler possibly do that would make nobody believe him?" She then thought back to Chronicler's rant the previous night. "He was probably just mad at the time. I'm sure that if he had been more calmer, he would not have done something so stupid. I'm sure even he would consider such a thing a stupid thing to do, even though he was the one who did it. Well, I guess he'll just have to be more careful about what he does when he gets mad. I don't think Chronicler will ever do anything on purpose to harm us." Ruby then got up and began heading back to the cave. Little did she know, after a few more days would pass, her last thought would be proven wrong.

Pangaea · **Reply #2050 on:** February 25, 2011, 11:16:52 PM

“Well, that was nice of you,” Pangaea said to Sparky after seeing her distribute food to not just him, but Guido, Nana, Cera, Tricia, Daniel, and Petrie as well. “Thank you very much!”

“Yeah, thanks!” said Guido, just as pleased as Pangaea. By now his initial fear of Sparky had almost totally disappeared.

To Sparky’s offer for leaves (before he considered that it might not have been directed at him), Pangaea responded, “No thanks. I tried a tree star after I first got here, but I just couldn’t gag that thing down.”

“Nah, I’m good,” Guido said, apparently having thought that Sparky had been talking to him, too. He turned to Pangaea. “Say, Pangaea, do you want to share some of my crawlers?”

Pangaea looked at the squirming caterpillars. Despite having spent at least forty hours as an insectivorous dinosaur, he still had an aversion to popping a live insect into his mouth. “No thanks,” he declined politely, “I’ll stick with the tree sweet.”

“Suit yourself,” Guido replied, before he gleefully began gleaning caterpillars off the leaves.

Suppressing a gourmandish attack on the tree sweet for the sake of politeness, Pangaea took a deep but unhurried bite into the fruit, swallowing the lump of nectary flesh that came loose. He followed up with another bite that overlapped the first, then another, and another, and another, turning the fruit with each bite until he had worked all the way around it, in the same manner as he would have eaten an apple. However, his narrow, pointed jaws meant that the ring of bites was much narrower than the one he would have made with a comparatively scaled human mouth. Turning the fruit vertically, he started taking long, guillotining bites out of the untouched parts of the fruit on either side of the bite ring. Within a couple of minutes, he had succeeded in removing the majority of the fruit’s flesh.

Guido, meanwhile, addressed Daniel’s offer. “Uh, thanks,” he said. “I’ll remember that.”

Kor · **Reply #2051 on:** February 25, 2011, 11:19:21 PM

"Me thank you." Petrie said before he went over to where the pile of treesweets were and picking out one of the smaller ones for himself, since he knew he didn't eat much and the larger folks ate much more then he did. He took it over slightly to one side to not be in the way.

"Me hope there enough food for everyone here." He said looking around at those present before he hold up the treesweet he had picked out to take his first bite of it.

LBTDiclonius · **Reply #2052 on:** February 25, 2011, 11:22:38 PM

Nana was a little slow in taking sparky's offer. "Oh! Sorry, Yes, thanks Sparky!" she exclaimed, taking the tree sweet delicately in her mouth and chewing and swallowing it. "And, uh, no leaves for me, thanks."

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #2053 on:** February 26, 2011, 02:18:22 AM

"No leaves for us, either. We just ate breakfast. Thanks for the sweets, though!" Cera said before she began to dig into her pile of treesweets, making sure Tricia had enough treesweets in her pile first. Tricia giggled and babbled as she began to work on a treesweet. As she ate, Cera noticed the baby threehorn was having issues with biting into her treesweet. Cera sighed as she stopped what she was doing and drew her attention to Tricia.

"You're doing it the wrong way, silly. Here, let me show you how a baby threehorn breaks into a treesweet," Cera said before she picked a treesweet up so it was wedged in her right jaw, and clamped down until the flesh of the treesweet cracked open before setting the treesweet back on the ground in front of her. Tricia had simply watched curiously.

"Now, let me see you do it," Cera instructed. Tricia giggled as she picked up the treesweet as she had been shown, an managed to break the flesh open.

"That's the way to do it," Cera said with a smile as Tricia squealed in excitement over her accomplishment. "That's my little sister." Cera gently nuzzled Tricia before she returned to eating her own treesweets, including the one she had used in her demonstration.

Redtooth101 · **Reply #2054 on:** February 26, 2011, 10:00:49 AM

Daniel looked around and then thought. 'Hm, my species as far as I know eat's fish, but Pteranodons eat fruits and leaves in this universe so maybe' he then turned to Sparky. "If it isn't too much to ask could I get a fru-I mean tree sweet too?" he asked her.

FlipperBoidSkua · **Reply #2055 on:** February 26, 2011, 04:55:57 PM

"Okay, holding the salads for everyone!" Sparky said with a grin before adding playfully. "And Guido, salad is a mix of leafy green food stuffs in case you were going to add that to your list."

Still beaming happily, she looked to Daniel and shifted some fruities in front of him. "Not a problem! Really, there's enough for everyone, so dig in. And if it turns out that you eat fish, I'm afraid I won't be of much help there." She doubted she would ever be able to catch a fish; she couldn't in the human world and she seriously doubted this body was made for such a thing. And she couldn't help but mutter aloud, "I bet it'll be easier if we all knew what Sierra ate...."

Amaranthine · **Reply #2056 on:** February 26, 2011, 11:58:43 PM

Terry didn't realize that Petrie left already seeing that she was busy trying to eat and she looked towards the others and saw that they were closing to finishing. Terry decided to stay near in a corner, which suspiciously enough had a little crack, just enough to hear what was going on outside. As she ate, she heard below the conversations between her mother and uncle. From what she was hearing through this crack, it was not pretty at all.

"Pterano...I don't know what you were doing while this capture came up, but I think I have a right to know." The smaller blue flyer crossed her arms at her brother whom was shrinking back a bit. He hated it when his sister lectured him...even more so, when they were in an argument, she was usually spot on about the situation. He sighed and replied, "Listen my dear sister...I just do-didn't believe that I belonged here. With everyone minus a few...being not very friendly and what not I-I just didn't know what to do, especially with Mr. Threehorn-"

Rebecca suddenly stopped him mid-sentence and wondered, "See...this is what I don't understand..if you're so interested in trying to be part of the valley why did you come here when the five colds times were not up? And you suddenly just flake out of coming here? That just doesn't make any sense!" She slapped a hand on her face and sighed, trying to understand where her brother's mind.

"Listen to me...I just came here to redeem myself, another chance."
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After a long pause and waiting for the daughters to leave, Mr. Three Horn stared solemnly at his mate for a while, with her staring back at him puzzled and asked her feminine voice, "What's wrong Topsy?"

He sighed and stated finally, "Tria...I'm concerned for our young ones here. I don't believe they can be safe in this Valley as much as they used to."

Tria breathed realizing where this was going, "Ooh Topsy! If you're going to blame those newcomers again...I'll-"

"It's not them I'm worried about. For all I care they can say and squabble about whatever they please. What I am wondering is what effect will this whole thing, RedClaw, sharpteeth and all of this have on our daughters? For all we know we might have to go back to the days before the Great Valley, when it was every herd for itself."

Tria shook her head, "Topsy, we have a herd and family for support and security. We have a valley that's hard for predators to come in."

"But there has been too many occasions where our kids were in danger, running off when they shouldn't have, leading themselves into sharptooth's territory, trusting a...a lying, scheming, murderer and-"

"Topsy! Didn't you save that 'Lying, scheming murderer'? I don't particularly trust him myself, but as far as he has been here, he hasn't done anything has he?"
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Amy got herself up and looked around, realizing she didn't eat and honestly wasn't very hungry to begin with. She took into consideration though that she did have to eat something, so she slowly walked away towards a pool and dunked her head into the water to consume large gulps. She finally lifted her head out of the water and then after a few seconds of euphoric refreshment, stared at her reflection i the water.

I don't know how long I'm going to take this until I lose my sanity.

She curled up in a ball hugging her legs close to her chest and stayed in this position for awhile until she felt like she could get up and consume some food.

Kor · **Reply #2057 on:** February 27, 2011, 01:49:06 AM

"Me think this tree sweet tastey. What rest of you think?" Petrie asked as he paused his eating to look around and ask what the others thought. There was some juice from the tweesweet he was eating on his beak as he spoke. He licked some of the juice up. Then nibbled a bit of the treesweet while he waited and listened to any other folks replying or talking.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #2058 on:** February 28, 2011, 02:51:35 AM

"I think they're sweet, and that's all I need to know," Cera replied as she stopped to lick treesweet juice off her snout before returning to her treesweets. Cera's fondness of sweets was very evident at the moment. Tricia giggled in amusement at her sister as she worked on her snack.

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"Are you going to get up some time today or not? It is a really nice morning, yep yep yep," Ducky's voice squeaked as she tapped Anna's right arm. Anna sleepily half-opened her left eye and looked up at the sun. Judging by the sun's position, she guessed the time of day to be no later than 7:30 AM.

"Aw, c'mon now. It's still too freakin' early," Anna whispered as she went back to sleep, not even noticing it was Ducky who had spoken to her.

"It is never too early to go for a swim, oh no no no. I know you like the water very much, yep yep yep. It is a really nice morning I already said, yes I did," Ducky continued as she tried to pull on Anna's arm that time.

"Hey, cut it out, Pepper," Anna said in her sleep as she pulled her arm back toward herself.

"Pepper? I am not Pepper. Who is...oh, I get it. You are sleeptalking, yep yep yep," Ducky said, now feeling out of ideas on how to wake her friend up. She then remembered the water next to them before she formed a sly grin. At the same time, Anna was sleeping soundly until she felt herself get splashed by really cold water.

"Gahhhh!" Anna yelped as she jerked out of her sleep, smashed her tail against a nearby tree, and sent a coconut-like treesweet down on her own head. Crack!

"Ow! Damn, that hurt," Anna groaned as she gently rubbed where she had gotten hit.

"Are you okay? I am glad to see you are awake now, yes I am," Ducky said as she came over to Anna.

"So, you're the one who woke me up, eh?" Anna replied.

"Yep, yep, yep," Ducky chirped with a nod. Suddenly, Anna playfully grabbed Ducky by the tail and tossed her into the water.

"Hey! What did you do that for?" Ducky asked in a surprised manner as she resurfaced.

"Hey, payback's a real...stinkbug," Anna replied, making sure to keep the line kid-friendly.

"I will take this payback any time, yep yep yep," Ducky giggled as she began swimming around.

"That's exactly what I was afraid of. A'ight, I'm up now," Anna replied as she also got in the water to swim around.

Serris · **Reply #2059 on:** March 01, 2011, 01:33:03 AM

James had found a place to sleep by the lake. He hoped that this was a horrible nightmare but when he awoke he still found himself as a blue Oviraptor.

"Damn it! What is going on?" he said.

He suddenly heard rustling in the bushes.

James gulped and ran as fast as possible away from the rustling. Luckily, he used to be a former cross country runner but now it seemed like he was running at a speed that he could only previously dream of!

As he ran, a brown Utahraptor poked its head out from the shrubs and waded into the lake.

"Well, let's see if they have any fish," it said. Judging from its voice, it was a male.

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James kept running and as he did, he dashed right by Anna and Ducky.