"Alright. I'll go and find him. Perhaps he is not so far away from here..." Chomper said, walking out of the cave. He started to sniff air to catch Claw's scent, but what he could smell was an old track, so he needed to go futher away. Then he heard someone shouting from a distance. It sounded like Littlefoot was calling his friends to come. Chomper thought that if everybody will come to one place, then it will be an opportunity to ask them if they didn't see Claw anywhere. He ran quickly in direction of Littlefoot's voice...
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"Enough laughing!" brown flyer said "Lets get to business. It's your turn, Rinkus." he said to pink flyer, waving his paw at Claw. Rinkus came closer to lying sharptooth.
"Listen to me, fastbiter. Me and my friend here are staying in the Valley for few Bright Circles, but those who live here would surely want to make us go away, if they knew we are here." pink flyer said.
"Why are you telling me this?" Claw asked.
"Because we want to make you our spy. We need someone, who would warn us of every move those Valleyers make and since you are a friend to them, as you claim, it won't be hard for you to get us informations." Rinkus answered with a sly smile "Do you agree to be our eyes and ears in the Valley?"
"You forgot to say magic word." Claw sneered.
"Say 'yes' or else..." Sierra (by now Claw had a certainty it was him) said quietly, but he didn' have to shout to sound immensely menacing.
"Works for me." Claw told hastily.
"Good." Rinkus said, picking up a black, round thing from the ground. Claw had been too focused on flyers to notice this thing earlier, but now he could see it looked like some kind of fruit.
"Now... To ensure that you won't change your mind after we will let you go..." Rinkus said before thrusting the black fruit into fastbiter's mouth. Claw tried to spit it out, but Sierra used his paws to shut his mouth, so sharptooth had no other choice but to swallow the fruit, which didn't taste good at all (to say the least). After Claw ate it all, pink flyer said:
"The first thing you should know is: this fruit, you've eaten, is quite poisonous. To be honest, it is so poisonous that after ten or more Bright Circles you will die."
"That's right." Sierra said with a wide smile "At first, you will only feel a little tired, then you will get a pain in the head, which will become stronger and stronger, but it will be just a beginning. After awhile you will start loosing your teeth and claws and then you will feel like your stomach is burning terribly, but it would be far from over..."
"Yes. Then you will spit with blood and it will be too hard for you to swallow anything, as it will cause only more pain to you. After one or two Bright Circles you will be too weak to walk or stand." Rinkus said "Then, sharptooth, you will slowly die, lying in you blood, which will flow out of your eyes, your nose and your mouth..."
"Isn't that a beautiful death?" Sierra asked rhetorically, with dreamy expression on his face "I wish we could stay in the Great Valley long enough to see it..."
"Luckily for you, sharptooth, we know how to heal you and we will do it. If you keep spying for us, that is." Rinkus continued "We will release you now, but we expect you to show up here every morning." as he was saying this, Sierra was loosening vines, that were keeping Claw in place "Remember: if you tell anyone about us or if you don't do what we are ordering you to do, you will never get the cure."
"I will remember." Claw said. He didn't like to be a spy, but let's face it, what other choice he had?
"You better will!" Sierra exclaimed, untieing the last vine "Alright, lets go now, Rinkus. I had enough talking for a one day." After that, he took off in the air, with Rinkus right behind him.
