In the land before time

Kor · **Reply #900 on:** November 18, 2009, 02:54:47 PM

Grandpa longneck lowered his head to let Amy off, moving at a slow pace so she could keep hold till his head was near the ground.

Flapper kept quiet about his ideas being ignored, pretty much like in real life. So he shrugged and decided to wonder off a bit. They'd not need his help anyway and he could see more of the Great Valley, for starters.

"Me can do that. Me stay high up." Petrie said. He was scared of sharpteeth, but not as scared if he was high up and they were on the ground and some distance away.

Belmont2500 · **Reply #901 on:** November 18, 2009, 05:34:08 PM

"Maybe if we find something large enough to use as a bag,that might work" Belmont suggested.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #902 on:** November 18, 2009, 06:44:21 PM

"If we can find some very large leaves in the valley, maybe some of the flyers can use the leaves as somethin' like a sack, fill the leaves with water and transport them over to this location," Anna suggested.

Noname · **Reply #903 on:** November 18, 2009, 06:47:47 PM

"That's the idea!" Pterano said. "I'll need to get us some flyers first..."

"Is this somehow related to taking over the Great Valley, by hijacking my plan and-" 'Thomas' started to say.

"No! It's not that. I have as much to gain as anyone else does by seeing a secure valley..." Pterano responded.

Amaranthine · **Reply #904 on:** November 18, 2009, 08:25:02 PM

Amy heard Thomas' response and rolled her eyes at him, but subtle enough that he wouldn't notice.

"Thank you Mr. Longneck." She smiled at Grandpa Longneck.

Then she turned to Rebecca and asked, "Maybe you can have your children bring some things here, like, the giant leaves Anna suggested."

Rebecca replied, "Well there are other flyers here besides me and my kids, so we can have others get them." Then she turned to her son and replied, "Petrie, we can go fly up and look to see if there are any sharpteeth around, I'll be with you." She smiled and nudged her son, trying to comfort him.

"Oh, okay." Amy blushed for making that suggestion.

Little Foot looked around and said, "That's good, let's try it!"
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Mr. Three Horn grumbled at Rick's reply and said, "Well, my foot is feeling numb now." He replied to Pangea.

"By the way...um...thanks for doing this..."

Pangaea · **Reply #905 on:** November 18, 2009, 09:22:09 PM

“You’re welcome,” Pangaea replied simply. He knew it was a rare thing, to be thanked by Mr. Threehorn, and although he appreciated it, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed as well.

Removing the anesthetic tree stars that were in the way, he examined the spearhead stuck in Mr. Threehorn’s foot. It was embedded fairly deep, and while the wound was not bleeding much, Pangaea worried that he would cause more damage if he removed the stone point too quickly. He took a nervous breath, noting his intensified heartbeat. It seemed to him that he was more anxious than Mr. Threehorn was.

“Okay,” he said, willing his voice to be as calm as possible, “I’m gonna pull the rock out now. Try to stay as still as you can. Don’t move your foot until I tell you that it’s out.”

Carefully, Pangaea grasped both sides of the spearhead and began working it loose. It was stuck in quite firmly, and every second Pangaea worried that Mr. Threehorn would react to the pain and kick. If that happened, he would not only risk worsening his injury, but crippling his surgeon as well. Not wanting to think about that, Pangaea tried to think of what he was doing as merely extracting an oversized splinter from an equivalently enormous foot, hoping that that was what this injury equated to for Mr. Threehorn.

Pangaea couldn’t tell how long it took (to him it felt like forever, but he knew himself to be particularly bad at keeping accurate track of time), but eventually the spearhead came loose.

“Got it!” Pangaea exclaimed.

Kor · **Reply #906 on:** November 18, 2009, 10:46:36 PM

"Those do sound like excellent ideas. Let's give them a try." Grandpa Longneck said.

"Ok, me fly up and look." Petrie said and started to fly up to see if any sharpteeth were nearby that he could see.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #907 on:** November 19, 2009, 04:12:26 AM

Despite it only taking a few moments Pangaea's removal of the spear head from Mr.Threehorns foot was amazingly suspenseful. As he heard Pangaea say the stone was free, Rick wiped his head with his tail in relief. "Thank goodness. Way to stay calm Pangaea." he commented with another sigh.

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Grandma Longneck smiled as she spoke up, "Perhaps Longtail would be willing to help us, if he can be found." She then looked around for a moment. "Does anyone know where he could be right now?" Grandma Longneck asked with a frown.

Spike turned his head and sniffed the air and began to grumble and moan as if to say 'I can use my nose and sniff him out!'

Kor · **Reply #908 on:** November 19, 2009, 06:29:47 AM

"I recall some rumors that Spike has a very good sniffer. And I'm sure Chomper does also. Perhaps one of them can find him. " Mim said.

Flapper walked away and towards some water. He went into the water to drink a bit then soak himself for a bit. Thinking where to head to next.

The Chronicler · **Reply #909 on:** November 19, 2009, 10:02:04 AM

"All these ideas really are great ideas," said Ruby.

"Yeah yeah, of course they are," said Chronicler. "Now let's get to work. With the threat of Sharpteeth, I say less talking and more doing." He then walked up to one of the largest nearby rocks and tried to push it. Obviously, the huge rock didn't even budge. "Yeah, we're gonna need some heavy lifters to move these first few rocks."

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #910 on:** November 19, 2009, 12:32:17 PM

"Chronicler's right. Let's get to work before those sharpteeth try to make a buffet out of us again," Anna said. "I'd say longnecks and spiketails take on the task of movin' the heavy rocks, flyers, fastbiters, and some fastrunners get the supplies for the mortar, and swimmers and other larger two-legged dinosaurs mix the mortar. I'm a midget of a swimmer, so I figured the rest of the fastrunners, humans, some of the younger dinosaurs, and myself stand on the wall as it is built and share the responsibility of patting the mortar down, then placing the rocks from largest to smallest. It's just an idea." Anna then took her sling off and set it to the side. She had used it for the sole purpose of deterring herself from using her arm until the bleeding slowed down, and by then she felt she was okay using her arm.

"Okay, I'm ready. Let's get this bad boy up," Anna said.

Kor · **Reply #911 on:** November 19, 2009, 01:54:43 PM

Grandpa Longneck nodded, "and don't forget some larger folks also can be strong, threehorns, swimmers and others." He said, "And working together we can accomplish more then we suspect."

Petrie continued to fly up to what he thought was a good height and circled around a bit, looking for any sharpteeth or fastbiters, especially any that looked like they were or could be headed in their direction.

Noname · **Reply #912 on:** November 19, 2009, 02:27:08 PM

"Does anyone know where to find a large supply of sand" 'Thomas' queried. "We're gonna need a lot of it to make this mortar... and a lot of water. Stone, sand, and water. And we'll have to crush the stones too."

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #913 on:** November 19, 2009, 05:45:11 PM

Grandma longneck nodded her head in agreement, then thought about Thomas' request of where to find sand. "I do seem to remember there being quite a bit of sand near the bubbling tar pits. Perhaps we should check there first." she commented.

Spike then as if on cue picked up Longtail's scent and laughed, as he began to walk away from the rest of the group. He turned to Ducky and Anna and mumbled aloud, 'I think I've got him he's really close.'

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #914 on:** November 19, 2009, 09:53:01 PM

"I also smell a number of adults,' thud said. "Shall we risk it.'

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Sam sat there and looked at his wound it had stopped bleeding but there was still some wet blood around the wound.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #915 on:** November 19, 2009, 11:47:01 PM

"I think Spike smells Longtail! He does, he does!" Ducky spoke up.

"That's good. Now, how will we crush rocks for the mortar?" Cera asked.

"With that thick head of yours, that's how," Anna cracked in a joking manner. Ducky and Tricia laughed along with Anna, until Cera glared at them.

"Ooookay, looks like somebody's not in a humorous mood this mornin'. I'll be serious now. I guess we'll have to use larger rocks to crush smaller rocks, unless somebody else has an idea," Anna said.

Amaranthine · **Reply #916 on:** November 20, 2009, 12:03:42 AM

Red Claw emerged from the bushes and says, "Can you smell anything else?" He sniffed also and he realized, the target he was searching for was among them.

"Get them now, your reward will be to eat the whole valley...just remember, I WANT that flyer. I have more energy now then ever, no one WILL get in our way this time."
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Rebecca looked far away and saw something emerge from the brush below her. She gapsed and said, "Everyone, I see something coming this way. I'm not clear what it is, but just be careful."

She nudged Petrie and told him to lower himself.

Amy gulped when she heard Rebecca say that.

"I hope it's not who I think it is..." She grumbled.
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Mr. Three Horn looked in amazement at the hole that was in his foot.

"I thank you greatly Pangea. This just needs to be bandaged and I think I'll be on my way."

He saw his mate and asked with a relaxed smile, "Where is our daughters?"

Noname · **Reply #917 on:** November 20, 2009, 12:05:48 AM

"They were back at the nest, last I saw, Topsy" Tria replied. "How is your foot?"

f-22 "raptor" ace · **Reply #918 on:** November 20, 2009, 12:09:17 AM

"I think it is play cool,' sam said. As sam was looking around he noticed some rocks by the wall. "Hmm maybe this would be the perfect time for my best impression of a Stuka,' sam thought. sma went to the rocks and saw that there was a loge the was hollow near by it. "This should do the trick,' sam said to himself.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #919 on:** November 20, 2009, 12:26:29 AM

"What's that sound?" Anna asked as she tilted her head in the direction Rebecca was looking.

"I can't hear anything!" Cera snorted.

"Shh! Anna has very sensitive ears, remember?" Ducky whispered.

"Oh, that's right," Cera whispered back. Tricia stepped in so she was close to Cera. Meanwhile, Anna was trying to focus on the sound in order to determine the source of it.