In the land before time

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1560 on:** August 10, 2010, 01:24:32 AM

"How long will it be before you can eat those silver splashers?" Ducky asked as Anna continued to roast the fish over the campfire.

"Not much longer, Ducky. You've gotta wait'll the meat of the fish is whitish in color," Anna replied. Ducky did her best to appear okay with her friend's dietary needs, but she felt like she would be sick.

"Are they any good?" Ducky asked, almost too afraid to do so.

"Yup, and there's no way I could eliminate fish from my diet," Anna said before she checked the fish. "Hey! They're all done."

"That is good so you will not get sick, yep yep yep," Ducky said. Anna then noticed the little swimmer was keeping her distance.

"Hey, I don't eat friends, remember? It's perfectly okay to sit near me, and I promise I won't try to offer ya any fish," Anna said.

"I hope not, because I do not eat silver splashers, oh no no no," Ducky replied as she took a seat near the campfire.

"I understand, little one. It's common courtesy back in my world to offer others food or drinks regardless of their diets just to be friendly, but I know things are different here," Anna said before she took a bite of fish. "Smoked fish is so good."

"Are you not afraid you will get burned by that fire you made? You are sitting awfully close, yep yep yep," Ducky said in a concerned manner.

"Nah, the heat of the fire feels so good, and it reminds me of many good times I had growing up. Go on ahead 'n try it," Anna said. Ducky scooted in closer until she could feel the warmth of the flames.

"That does feel good, yep yep yep," Ducky agreed.

"Do ya know what else humans make small fires like this one for, aside from eating? We like to sit around 'em and tell each other stories," Anna said while she ate.

"What kind of stories?" Ducky asked.

"All kinds of stories. True stories, make-believe stories, stories of our ancestors, myths, legends...we humans love stories, especially ones that are told well," Anna replied. "So, what kind of story would ya like to hear?"

"Well...I think I would like to hear about a big adventure you have been on, yep yep yep," Ducky requested.

"Okay, fine with me," Anna replied before she thought of a story and began to tell it to Ducky.

Pangaea · **Reply #1561 on:** August 10, 2010, 04:22:07 AM

Just then, Guido glided down several feet away from Anna and Ducky, tentatively walking up to them. “Uh, sorry,” he said. “I hope I’m not interrupting you or anything. I was just wondering if I could try a little bit of that…uh…fish you caught.”

(OOC: CT, the lava pit where you and Ducky are is the volcanic vent where Grandpa Longneck tells the gang stories, right?)

The Chronicler · **Reply #1562 on:** August 10, 2010, 09:00:04 PM

"You do bring up a good point," said Chronicler. "Not something I'd be concerned about at the moment, but it's worth keeping in mind. Anyway, we'll worry about this tomorrow." He then turned to Ruby. "I'm a little hungry at the moment, so what would you recommend for dinner?"

"I'm hungry too. Come with me and I'll show you what we can eat," replied Ruby as she headed in another direction. Chronicler followed her.

Rocky · **Reply #1563 on:** August 10, 2010, 10:28:30 PM

" Well nice to meet you shorty." Rocky said. he was a little surprised that Shorty was so quiet. "well I've got to go, I guess I'll see you two later. " Rocky said as he walked away.

Rocky walked until he found were Anna and ducky were sitting by what looked like a camp fire. "Well hello again, I hope your feeling better Ducky." Rocky said to the swimmer. "I just ran into this jerk named Hyp, you know him?" He asked ducky. " I also ran into two long necks named Bron and Shorty." He said to them as he smiled. "Mind if I join you?" He asked the two, not taking his eyes off of Anna.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1564 on:** August 11, 2010, 01:32:44 AM

(OOC: That's right, Pangaea

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"Uh, sure no problem. C'mon and join us," Anna greeted Guido and Rocky. "And yes, Guido, you're more than welcome to try this fish. It's very good."

"Friends are good to have around, yep yep yep," Ducky said with a smile when she saw Guido and Rocky.

Amaranthine · **Reply #1565 on:** August 11, 2010, 02:22:38 AM

(OOC: I think Guido came to you and Ducky, not Pangaea.

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Pterano embraced his nephew in response and said as if Reading Petrie's thoughts, "I will try my hardest to never, ever lie to you or the valley again."

Mr. Three Horn snorted, not very convinced of Pterano's words. He stayed close by his daughters just to be sure Pterano would not do anything funny while he was around.
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Amy did not want to interrupt anything so she turned to Pangaea and asked, "Um so...what do you want to do right now?"

Pangaea · **Reply #1566 on:** August 11, 2010, 03:01:57 AM

(OOC: Amy beat me to the correction.

It IS Guido who showed up, not Pangaea.

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“Heh, thanks,” Guido said as he came closer. He studied the piece of fish closest to him, then gave it a cautious lick. “YEOW! Ow! It’s hot! Yow!” he cried, jumping back, his eyes bulging and his slightly scalded tongue hanging out of his mouth.

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Some distance away, Pangaea heard Guido’s yelps of pain. “Uh, sorry, hold that thought,” he said to Amy. “Follow me if you want.” He ran off in the direction of the cries.

A moment later, Pangaea arrived at the volcanic vents where Guido, Anna, Ducky, and Rocky were. “What’s wrong? What happened?” he asked Guido, concerned.

“Uh…Ah trahd a pieth ah Anna’th fith and ih wath really hot,” Guido explained, his tongue still hanging out.

Pangaea’s eyes widened. “Whoa, you tried a piece of fish?” he said in surprise. He hadn’t expected that Guido would be interested in trying such a food. Then he remembered that Guido was in pain. “Er, uh, sorry,” he said sheepishly, hoping he hadn’t appeared insensitive, “You burned your mouth, I’m guessing? Sorry about that. Is it bad?”

“Uh, not really,” Guido said, flicking his tongue a few times in an attempt to remove the scorched sensation. “I just wasn’t expecting it would be hot.”

“Ah, well, that’s good news,” Pangaea said. “How did it taste?”

“I dunno. My tongue was too busy getting burned.”

“You wanna try it again?”

Guido shrugged. “I guess so,” he said. “Maybe I should wait until it’s less hot, though.”

“Try blowing on it first to cool it off,” Pangaea suggested. He attempted to demonstrate, only to find that it was much harder to create a concentrated stream of air with his mouth when he had long narrow jaws and almost no lips.

Guido took his advice nonetheless, and puffed on the fish for a few seconds before tasting it again, this time taking a small bite. The white flesh separated easily from the rest of the fish. After mashing it up between his jaws and his tongue for a bit, he swallowed it.

“Whoa,” he said, “It’s really soft! You don’t even have to chew it!”

“Good thing, since you can’t chew,” Pangaea noted. “How is it?”

“Surprisingly, it’s pretty good!” Guido said, nodding.

“Well, good for you for trying a new food!” Pangaea congratulated him. He then turned to Anna. “Um…I don’t suppose there’s enough of this fish that I could have a little bite of it too, is there?” he asked timidly.

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“THUD!” Screech bellowed, “Are you coming with me to find the valley entrance or not?!”

Amaranthine · **Reply #1567 on:** August 11, 2010, 06:05:09 PM

Amy jumped when she heard the screeching of something and Pangaea dashing right after it. She stalled for a moment and look back at the scene between Petrie and Pterano. Then she looked back to where Pangaea ran. She sighed and decided to see where Pangaea was heading off to.

She was on all fours and ran a bit toward the sounds of talking and the smell of cooking.

"Wow, that smells nice." She spoke to herself and she felt her mouth salivating.
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Mr. Three Horn heard the noise too as well as Pterano and both perked their heads up.

"What was that?" Pterano asked.

Myrkin · **Reply #1568 on:** August 11, 2010, 06:53:43 PM

"Having a dinner is surely a good idea." Chomper said, before heading in different direction than Ruby and Chronicler went. He stopped for a moment to say:

"Are you coming, Claw?"

"Sure! I had a small fish though, but I'm still hungry." fastbiter replied, following purple sharptooth.

"And if we were hunting right now, then what would you have appetite for?"

"Well... Since I've been fastbiter for a few days, I don't know what I would like. Do you have any suggestions, Chomper?"

"Quite a lot, but I wouldn't try to eat threehorn, if I were you."

"Why not? Do they taste bad?"

"No, no! They taste good. It's just they would become very mad, if you tried to eat them and they are scary when they are mad..." Chomper replied, shivering a bit at the thought of enraged threehorn.

"Ha! That's something you don't have to convinve me about." Claw said laughing. Suddenly, as they went, he could smell... cooking? This had to be some human, as no one else here knew how to cook anything.

"It's coming from there." Chomper waved his hand "I can smell Ducky, Guido and few others there too."

"You have a good nose, Chomper. I surely would like to learn that from you." Little sharptooth smiled at praise.

"And I will be happy to teach you, Claw. Are we going there?"

"Yes. I am curious what can smell so nicely" fastbiter answered and they aproached a group of dinosaurs gathered around the campfire.

"Hello everybody!" Chomper shouted to others and so did Claw.

Kor · **Reply #1569 on:** August 11, 2010, 08:20:42 PM

Petrie continued to hug his uncle, glad to see him. At the sound of the cry he looked over in the direction. "Me wonder what that is. Me hope it no sharptooth, fastbiter or belly dragger bited someone." Petrie said a bit scared at the idea.

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Mim heard the cry and hurried over in the direction to see what it was about and if someone needed any help.

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Flapper was off amidst some trees away from where others could not see him and practicing his flying a little here and there so he could fit in better then being an obvious oddity in being a flyer who could not fly, or at least one who never learned how. Hearing someone cry out he decided to head over in that direction to see what was going on. Though he guessed the situation would resolve itself before he got there. He'd not be surprised if Littlefoot or one of his friends would resolve it, since it seemed in the movies and tv series the adults were not to effective. That got him to thinking. He wondered if there were animation mistakes done by the artist or if some of that stuff really happened, like Ruby eating the 2 grapes from the bit of vine then the 2 grapes reappearing just before she threw the bit of grape vine away.

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Grandpa Longneck was walking around, to spend some time visiting with some of his friends, and also as to not eat to many leaves in any one area or from any one tree. [1]

Rocky · **Reply #1570 on:** August 11, 2010, 08:51:23 PM

Rocky smiled as he sat down. He was a bit annoyed at his questions being ignored, but he decided it wasn't worth the fuss. "Yeah i guess friends are good to have around, but being a loner has it's upsides too." Rocky explained. "For example, you don't have to worry about anyone else ending up as Sharp tooth food." Rocky said. "I heard rumors about a talking sharp tooth living here in the valley, I think I heard his name was chomper." Rocky told ducky. "I'd be surprised if a sharptooth really lived here, to me it would seem as safe as having a egg stealer guard a nest." Rocky said as he leaned back, putting his arms behind his head.

Amaranthine · **Reply #1571 on:** August 12, 2010, 06:04:51 PM

Amy walked toward the smell and realized Anna was cooking the fish.

That smells amazing! She thought as she walked toward the group of dinos and the human.

She saw where Pangaea and Guido was and saw that they were in a middle of a convorsation, so she stayed silent for a bit. So she decided to go to Ducky and ask if she knew what happened.

"Hey Ducky, I heard a screech, do you know what happened?"
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Pterano shook his head to assure his nervous nephew, "No, I doubt that very much, no sharpteeth would have a screech like that." He allowed Petrie to on as long as he wanted and then he smelled something of a fish burning.

"Well..that's odd why would a sliver swimmer be burning?"

Mr. Three smelt is too and remarked, "All say...I don't know why anything would be burning right now...there's no fire...unless..."

His eyes widened and exclaimed at Pterano, "You wouldn't happen to have something burning in the valley right now would you?" He narrowed his eyes at Pterano.

Pterano sighed and shook his head, "Of course not...I don't know how in the would I could burn something out of thin air...that's just...impossible."

Pangaea · **Reply #1572 on:** August 13, 2010, 12:33:10 AM

(OOC: f-22 "raptor" ace has given me permission to control Thud.)

Thud, who had been chewing on a bone from the swimmer carcass, too concentrated on stripping the meat off to pay attention to Red Claw and Screech’s conversation, looked up with a start when Screech shouted at him.

“What?… Oh, yeah, yeah, I’m coming.” He ran over to Screech, head held low in a submissive gesture.

“Then come on,” Screech growled, leading Thud off in the direction he planned on searching.

“What is it we’re doing again?” Thud asked.

Screech rolled his eyes. Thud could be so inattentive sometimes. “We’re going back into the valley. Red Claw has another plan.”

“But haven’t the leafeaters blocked up that opening by now? The only other way in that I know of is that canyon with the fruits that make you sick if you get so much as a whiff of them.”

“I know that. We’re going to find another way in,” Screech said.

“How are we going to do that?”

“We’ll just walk along the Great Wall until we find an opening. It could take a while, but we’ll find one eventually. Those leafeaters have to get in and out somehow.”

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1573 on:** August 13, 2010, 02:37:27 AM

"Y'all are more than welcome to try some," Anna said. "And do be careful. As Guido just showed us, the fish is still quite hot."

"Except for me because I am a leafeater, yep yep yep," Ducky said. She then giggled in response to Amy's question.

"Guido tried some silver splasher when it was too hot, yep yep yep," she giggled. She then turned her attention to Rocky's statement.

"We do have a sharptooth that lives in the Great Valley, yep yep yep. His name is Chomper. It is, it is," Ducky added.

Kor · **Reply #1574 on:** August 13, 2010, 10:25:19 AM

"Maybe fastbiter bit someone or someone see fastbiter and that why they cry out." Petrie said, a bit scared but sure some among his present friends would want to go and see. "We go to find out what cause it?" He asked looking around.

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Mim started go jog over in the direction where the cry had come from, wanting to see what the cause was and if anyone was in danger or needed help. As well as that odd smell was, like something was burning, sort of, but not quite burning.

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Flapper sniffed the air as he continued in the direction of where the cry had come from. He sniffed the air, "Hmm, sounds like someone is cooking what smells like fish." he said. [1]

Amaranthine · **Reply #1575 on:** August 13, 2010, 11:55:48 PM

(I'm just going to play Tria temporarily until someone wants to play her.)

Pterano replied thoughtfully, "Perhaps...someone needs to see if everything is okay." He set Petrie down next to Tricia and replied, "Stay right here, I'll go see what's going on. It might not be anything, but we'll see." He took off with Mr. Three Horn muttering under his breath,

Yeah, you go check it traitor...

There was no way Mr. Three Horn was ever forgive Pterano for what he has done to the valley before and there was no convincing him that he was a "good guy".

Meanwhile Tria was at her home where her family usually was, but for some reason, they weren't there.

Hmm that's odd... She thought over to herself. She hoped that if the rain stopped, they would be near by, but not even Topsy was near the nest.

Well, where ever he is, I hope he is not causing any trouble again...

She walked away from her nest and then turned to the thundering falls, thinking maybe they were there. She saw a little ways away from the thundering falls her mate and her children, though she did not see Petrie, being smaller then her.

"Hello family, I was wondering where you went off to."
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Amy murmured a sigh of concern and looked to Guido sympathetically.

She chuckled a bit however at Ducky's giggle and responded, "Hmm he did huh? Thanks for telling me Ducky."

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1576 on:** August 14, 2010, 01:42:22 AM

"Geez, it seems like this day just flew by. It'll be dusk before we know it. I sure hope that wall we rebuilt holds up better than the last one," Anna blurted out.

"I do not think you need to worry, no no no," Ducky said.

"Y'all never worry 'bout your safety when nightfall comes around?" Anna asked Ducky in a surprised manner.

"Of course not, no no no. We are very safe here in the valley, yep yep yep," Ducky said in attempts to reassure her friend. However, Anna was not convinced.

"That's weird, since a lot of predators like to come out at night. At least, that's what my experience tells me," Anna replied before she took a bite of fish. There was still plenty to go around.

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"Daddy, is it okay if I go find my friends?" Cera asked her father.

Amaranthine · **Reply #1577 on:** August 14, 2010, 02:14:08 AM

Mr. Three Horn gave a hesitant expression, but then he said, "...Alright Cera, but I'm going with you." He stated. Tria looked at her mate to see what was wrong, but Mr. Three Horn mouthed, "I'll tell you later."
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Amy realized Ducky didn't respond to her, but she shrugged and decided to sit down and watch everyone make discussion. Then she suddenly saw a figure swooping down and walking a little ways towards the group, it was Pterano.

He's here?! Amy thought, she would have been sure that Mr. Three Horn would not allow Pterano anywhere near anyone, but maybe since his daughters were near him, he wasn't worried to much.

She waited and sat near Anna and Ducky while Pterano came near them and asked, "Um...hello? Excuse me, but what is that smell? I thought I smelt something burning...is everything okay here?"
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Rebecca was with her children and made sure they were near by, some of them were tired and needed their sleep, so she lead them inside their cave and put them to bed.

"Night mom." One of her daughters whispered. Rebecca smiled and said, "Sleep well my dears." She walked a little ways out of the cave and took off to look for Petrie and her brother.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1578 on:** August 14, 2010, 02:21:20 AM

"Oh, everything's fine here," Anna chuckled. "I'm just cookin' my dinner, that's all. It's...a human thing. I hope I'm not stinkin' up the whole valley, am I? I would feel terrible if I did that."

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Figuring her friends would've returned to the Thundering Falls to go swimming, and having absolutely no idea where Anna had taken off to, Cera decided to check out the Thundering Falls area.

Myrkin · **Reply #1579 on:** August 14, 2010, 07:36:16 AM

OCC: Er... Did you guys notice that me and Chomper came to your group around campfire? :huh: