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Flapper looked towards the opening, "I wonder who it may be." He said.  "I also hope this rain stops soon." He said.


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Longtail and Rick turned to face the entrance of the cave after hearing Amy say that someone was nearby. However Longtail was the first to act as he stood up and stepped closer to the mouth of hte cave. "Oh!" he said as he recognized the familiar silhouette. "It's Belmont! Hi." he called out as he stepped to the side to let his friend in.

Rick smiled and scooted over to make room for Belmont near the fire, knowing he'd most likely want to get warm. He then turned to Flapper and replied, "I doubt the rain is going to stop any time soon."

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Grandma Longneck looked down at her grandson and replied, "Well it is always nice to see newcomers in the valley, and they seem to know how to work together very well which is good when danger could be present. In my opinion, the newcomers will be welcomed here for as long as they need to be."


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Grandpa Longneck nodded, "They do seem an interesting bunch of folks and friendly also." He said.


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Belmont then entered the cave "oh,hi Rick" Belmont said as he sat down next to the fire "so what are you guys talking about?" he asked.
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Ali had just gotten to her herd "Mother when is this skywater going to stop" Ali asked "I don't know,Ali,I don't know" her mother replied.
 

 


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"Yes what is have you found redclaw,' thud asked.


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Red Claw exclaimed back, "Blood, and it's sharptooth blood. There must have been a fight here when we weren't looking...and the blood smells fresh, so it was recent. We need to guard the territory, we can't let anyone near our place." He stormed out of view and used his feet to feel his way around, as big as they were. His snout also wasn't just a good sniffing device, but a feeler, as he slowly found out.

Sniffing around he wondered where it came from. Then he shook his head and replied to himself, "What is wrong with me? Why do I feel so strange...so like this? This feeling to attack everything and anything...it's my nature...but I wonder if I went too far...

"Tell me Maria..."

Thinking over with himself he realized what was controling him.

"She do I see her dancing there? Why do her smoldering eyes still scorch my soul?!"

He inserted his claws into the ground and in fury, pain, and confusion, he roared so loud, the echo of the roar seemed to bounce off the whole globe.

"I feel her...I see her...the sun caught in her brown crown...is blazing in me out of all control!"

Then a snap of a twig made him realize he followed the scent for a good reason. There were intruders. You really couldn't trust anyone in the Mysterious Beyond, even your own kind...

A sharptooth like him roared loudly to him and Red Claw could tell this was a loner male trying to him a place to rest. He smelt the strong scent of blood that probably was oozing out of the loner male.

Red Claw wanted the blood...he wanted it bad...he was so hungry..for anything...so thirsty...for anything...

"You're blood is mine!" He roared at the loner male.

The loner male simply roared back at him as if in a taunting manner. The young male was arrogant, Red Claw could tell. And very foolish.....

It only lasted for about a few minutes...until the sharptooth's blood over flowed, everything inside the sharptooth was an abundance to Red Claw.

This was his end point...Red Claw knew he was out of his mind, he didn't care. And now, he actually more confidence as a hunter and killer, now that he was blind, he was a stealthier hunter then ever. No, not hunter, a blind, insane, cannibalistic, murderer.
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The brown and cream flyer looked to Belmont and replied softly, "Well, nothing really...we just are hanging out and staying warm." She shrugged.
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Rebecca stayed with her children and looked at the storm, and she even loomed down and saw something bright and red down. She turned to Petrie and her children and said, "Everyone stay in here, it looks like we have a visitor..."

She flew down from where she was and saw that it was a glider, just like Guido.
"Hello!" She called out during the storm. "Would you like to come in? It's warmer here!"




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Rebecca's greeting caught Pangaea by surprise. “Oh, uh...uh...sure!” he replied stutteringly, feeling shy as usual. “I–I-I was just looking for Guido, and I thought he might be at your nest. Have you seen him?”



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Rick smiled at Belmont's greeting.
"Well, what would you like to talk about Belmont? We have a lot of time."

Longtail retook his seated position next to the fire to keep warm and yawned.
"I'm gonna take a quick nap...wake me up if anything fun happens." he commented followed by another yawn.


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Chronicler began by telling Chomper what he had already told Ruby. He was going to (as best as he could) tell the series of stories called Bionicle.

Chronicler decided to start at the beginning: the 2001 storyline. He started by describing the island of Mata Nui, where the story took place, and the inhabitants of that island, the Matoran, and the elders of each village, the Turaga. He then mentioned the Great Spirit, Mata Nui, who was cast into an endless sleep by Makuta, who wanted to take over the island and its inhabitants. He the described the six Toa who arrived to the island, then about how they traveled across the island to collect masks of power to fight off Rahi that were enslaved by Makuta and eventually defeat Makuta. He also described the adventures of one Matoran, Takua, that happened during these events.

"I have a right to collect anything I want. It's just junk anyway."
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After hearing Longtail's comment Belmont was getting a bit tired "now that you mention it, I'm gonna take a nap as well, wake me up when the storm ends" he said before leaning against the cave walls and falling asleep,something was playing in his head:
                                   

Standing Alone, I'm Holding My Own
Gonna Show The World I'm The One
I Don't Care What You Think,
I Could Kill If You Blink
No Pretenders Left When I'm Done

Doesn't Matter Where I Go Now
You Know What They Say About Me
Everybody Loves A Winner
Everyone Can See That I Am
Everybody Follows The Leader (Baby)
Crusin' Down The Streets Of Siam

Fast But I'm Strong
It Won't Take Me Long
You See My Power Shine Like The Sun
Burn Up The Town, I Can't Get It Down
Gonna Have It All When I'm Done

Doesn't Matter Where I Go Now
You Know What They Say About Me
Everybody Loves A Winner
Everyone Can See That I Am
Everybody Follows The Leader (Baby)
Crusin' Down The Streets Of Siam

Everybody Follows The Leader
Everybody Follows The Man

Doesn't Matter Where I Go Now
You Know What They Say About Me
Everybody Loves A Winner
Everyone Can See That I Am
Everybody Follows The Leader (Baby)
Crusin' Down The Streets Of Siam.
 
"Oh yeah" Belmont whispered in his sleep.
 

 


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"Me wonder who visitor is." Petrie said looking to see if you could get a look at who the visitor is while remaining in the nest and dry.

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Flapper checked the wood to see if any of it was dry enough to perhaps add to the fire.


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Claw was waiting patiently for arrival of the person who had captured him, since he couldn't do anything else and screaming for help wouldn't be very effective in all this rain. He didn't have to wait long though, as two flyers came under the rock, which was protecting him from getting wet.

"You've finally woken up, sharptooth." the brown flyer said "Good for you, as I don't have to make you woke up." he added with a hint of disappointment in his voice.

"Who are you and what do you want?" Claw asked, although he was beginning to figure out the answer for the first question. Two flyers: brown and pink. The former seemed to be willing to use force on someone and that someone was probably Claw. That resembled one particular pair, Myrkin/Claw remembered seeing in one of the LBT movies...

"We are asking questions here, sharptooth, and you better give us an answers we like." brown flyer said threateningly, clenching one of his fists in front of Claw's face to emphasize his point.

"First of all: what a sharptooth, talking on top of that, is doing in the Great Valley?" Claw decided to answer this question, since it wouldn't harm anyone and he surely didn't want to find out what his captors would do, if he didn't say anything.

"Well... I am living here."

"Living here, eh? And Valleyers just let you be? They don't mind that there is a sharptooth on the loose?"

"They probably would mind, if they saw me as a threat, but they don't." Claw answered.

"Well... I can imagine, that they don't think you are dangerous, since I could knock you out easily." brown flyer said mockingly.

"Maybe... Or maybe they allow me to stay in the Valley, because I am one of the Friendly Sharpteeth, as they call them."

"Friedly Sharptooth?" pink flyer asked, who by this point had been silent "What do you mean by that?"

"It means that I don't attack any flatteeth, as I see them as my friends." After he said that, the flyers stared at him for a moment, then they looked at each other and... laughed their heads off...
Pessimist sees a dark tunnel. Optimist sees a light in the tunnel. Realist sees the light of coming train. And a driver sees three idiots standing on the track.

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - Watership Down by Richard Adams.


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(Hey Myrkin, where are ya right now?)

Amy was amazed how fast Belmont slept, it could literally take her hours to go to sleep...She sighed and looked out in the rain. She said, "Guys, I just want to ask all of you, minus Kor, I already asked him," She turned to Rick and Longtail, "To you two know about the GOF?"
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Rebecca said, "Please come in. Excuse me Petrie, we have a new visitor." She lead Pangaea up and replied, "Unfortunately, I haven't seen Guido all day. I hope he's dry and away from the rain. It would be a pity if he got sick. Here, sit here."

She allowed Panagea to sit in the dry cave. Some of Petrie's siblings looked at him and one of them exclaimed, "Hey he looks like Guido...only he has a really bright color!" Another sibling chimed in, "Yeah, he looks almost as bright as the bright circle! Only, the bright circle isn't bright so much as it yellow and white." They were amazed that there was actually someone out there like Guido and the color of his feathered fasinated them.

"Hey, kids, don't be rude. Did you all already forget your manners?" She put her hands on her hips as she said this in a playful, but still stern tone.

One of the shyer siblings, one of Rebecca's daughters went up to him, "Hi, I'm Terry, what's yours?" She shyly smiled and looked up at the red glider.
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Red Claw emeregd out of the woods and dragged the body toward Screech and Thud.

"Well boys...looks like your boss outdid himself this time. Poor, foolish creature."

As he said this the storm kept raging on and on, lighting striking a mile away, thundering rolling again, then lighting flashing. It seemed to be a storm that would last forever. What was the chance of it ending? But like any challenge in life, it would end sooner or later.




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"Maybe Guido in secret caverns where Chomper and Ruby sleep." Petrie said.  "Me glad to meet you.  Me never see another like Guido." He said, a bit surprised, not having seen any like Guido since he had met Guido.


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(OOC: Rat Lady: Shouldn’t Petrie’s siblings be saying “Bright Circle” instead of “sun”? :p)

“Oh, it’s okay,” Pangaea told Rebecca, “I appreciate the attention.” Just to be safe, though, he made sure to hold the plumes on his tail out of plucking range.

He addressed Terry, the little flyer who had asked his name. “Well, it’s kind of a weird name,” he said, shrugging, “Pangaea.”

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Screech was amazedóand a little intimidatedóby Red Claw’s latest kill: another sharptooth.

Well, there you go!” he told Red Claw, “Being blind’s not stopping you from hunting! I’d say your reputation isn’t in too much trouble!



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Rick smiled as he turned to Amy.
"If you're asking then you must be a member. As am I. You'd know me as the Great Valley Guardian."

Longtail looked up and asked, "What is the GOF? I've certainly never heard of it."

Rick looked down at Amy and asked, "Would you like to tell him or should I?"


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(I am halfway from ex-gap in the Great Wall to Ruby's cave.)
Pessimist sees a dark tunnel. Optimist sees a light in the tunnel. Realist sees the light of coming train. And a driver sees three idiots standing on the track.

"My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today." - Watership Down by Richard Adams.


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"I hope Sam and 'Thomas' were able to find shelter,' mr thicknose said.


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"or we could do like certain rainbowfaces did and say that would be telling." Flapper said, remembering the 7th movie.


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(@Pangaea: Yeah, that's what I meant. :p)
(@Myrkin: Ok. :) )

Amy raised a brow at Kor and said, "Um...I don't think there would be any reason to say that..." Then she turned to Longtail and replied, "Well, the GOF stands for "Gang of Five" it's a group, a club you could call it, and me, Rick, and a few others are apart of it." She wasn't sure if she could go as far as saying it's an online community, for how in the world would a dinosaur know about something like that, or even comprehend it?
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Red Claw gave a blood curling smile, with the scarlet blood accented and splattered all over his mouth and head and replied, "Yes, you were right Screech...very right indeed. I must have underestimated myself and my abilities...so is the life of a proud sharptooth like me." He shrugged and nudged the sharptooth to the other two, "Well this sharptooth should not go to waste, it might taste as good as anything else you tasted in your life." He waited to hear the responses of his cronies.
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Mr. Three Horn rested near by his mate and watched the others as they were sleeping. He then looked out in the rain and sighed. "I guess this will take awhile..."
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Rebecca smiled and chuckled a bit at Panagea's response. She then replied, "You do huh?" Then she thought to herself, Just like my brother. She sighed as she cleaned the area where the water dripped in the cave and then came back inside. She sat near her children and then looked to Petrie. "Petrie have you seen Guido in awhile?"