In the land before time

Kor · **Reply #1800 on:** November 17, 2010, 12:26:52 PM

Flapper got up and still holding his club hit a nearby fastbiter on the head who was knocked unconscious. "Bet he has a headache when he wakes up." he said.

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"We roll or throw rocks." Petrie suggested with some fear in his voice and shivering in fear a little at the sight he could see.

The Chronicler · **Reply #1801 on:** November 17, 2010, 05:00:13 PM

As soon as the attack began, Chronicler quickly realized what a mistake he had made. "Okay, definitely didn't think that one through," he said to himself. "That was not a smart thing to say." As the Fast-Biters charged, Chronicler said, "I don't know about you, but I'd rather be anywhere but the front line right now, so..." He then grabbed Ruby by the wrist and pulled her along as he ran towards the base of the cliff.

"What do we do now?" asked Ruby in desperation.

"We, since I failed as a talker, let's see how I can do as a fighter. Stay here." Ruby did as she was told and stayed at the base of the cliff while Chronicler ran towards the battlefield. Almost immediately, he found himself completely surrounded by Fast-Biters. Chronicler held his bamboo pole with both hands and said, "Alright, I may not be Jackie Chan, but I'll see what I can do. Hyyyah!!" He smacked a Fast-Biter across the face with the bamboo pole. Then he hit another, and another. It was only enough to down them for a few seconds; not enough time to give him a break.

Deciding to try a new strategy, he quickly hopped onto the back of one of those Fast-Biters. It was a crazy plan, but it seemed to surprisingly work, at first. As the Fast-Biter tried to shake him off, said Fast-Biter began knocking over a few others. They got back up, only to be knocked down again by the thrashing around.

Chronicler hoped that it would enrage them enough to make them start fighting each other. Unfortunately, that didn't happen. Running out of options and calculating the risks, he knew it was time to try something very different, but first he had to get off of this Fast-Biter, so he said, "Stand still, will ya!? I wanna conduct a science experiment; in this case, what would happen to your brain if I do this?" He then rammed the end of his bamboo pole against the back of the Fast-Biter's head, effectively knocking it out. "Now that's what I call super-effective."

Seeing half a dozen Fast-Biters coming at him, Chronicler rushed back to Ruby and exclaimed, "They just keep coming! Come on, Ruby, we're gonna take the high ground." He then began to climb up the cliff.

Ruby followed him up the cliff. "What about everyone else?" she asked.

"Don't worry, I'm sure they can hold their ground," replied Chronicler. "At least until we get to the top of this cliff."

"Okay, but what are we going to do once we get to the top of the cliff?"

"I haven't thought about that yet. Give me some time."

Belmont2500 · **Reply #1802 on:** November 17, 2010, 07:31:47 PM

John immediately drop-kicked kicked a fast biter that was coming in for the kill before picking up along stick with a sharpened end and thrusted it through the belly of another fast biter that approched from behind, "I see all evil, I hear all evil and I vanquish all evil" John said gallantly as he continued to hack at the approaching predators.
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"Good idea,Petrie but we'll need some big rocks" Ali insisted.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #1803 on:** November 17, 2010, 08:41:04 PM

Rick turned to Ali as he replied, "We're standing on a mountain... bigger rocks shouldn't be a problem!" He then turned his attention to Littlefoots comment. "We also can't stay up here and do nothing! We have to act and act fast!" Almost immediately he turned to face Longtail.

Longtail at that same moment turned to face Rick and as the two locked eyes they both gave a devious smile as Longtail pushed off the rock with his talons and flapped his wings giving him lift. He momentarily looked over at Zaine and said, "Please... forgive me." As he turned and literally dive bombed down towards Screech. He then gave a war cry and shouted as his right eye changed colors "SCREECH! YOU'RE MINE!!!"

Grandma Longneck took a tentative step back to ensure she had enough room as she swung her massive tail and slammed it into three fastbiters, sending them flying backwards across the ground. She then raised herself up on her hind legs and let gravity pull her down crushing two more underfoot. "Stay together everyone, we can't be separated!"

Cyrix even now in the midst of battle had a clam, almost peaceful exterior facial expression. He grappled claws with one fastbiter and threw it into another one, and using that momentum, he swung his tail out and caught another fastbiter in the legs tripping it up and forcing it to the ground.
"This is easier than I thought it would be." he said with an almost jovial tone of voice.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1804 on:** November 17, 2010, 10:17:10 PM

"Dammit! How'd I know this would happen?!" Anna growled as she followed after Rob. As she did that, a fastbiter jumped in front of her, causing her to stop dead in her tracks.

"Crap!" she yelped, noticing the fastbiter's claws.

"And just where do you think you're going?" the fastbiter snarled in sharptooth.

"Hey, I don't speak your language, but perhaps you're able to translate this!" Anna replied before she popped the fastbiter on the head with a closed fist, causing it to fall unconscious.

"Sleep tight," she cracked as she returned to covering Rob.

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"Well, I say we don't just stand around! I wanna go down there and kick some sharptooth tail!" Cera snorted.

Pangaea · **Reply #1805 on:** November 18, 2010, 01:55:55 AM

When Red Claw gave the signal to attack, Screech’s reaction was the complete opposite of that of every other fast biter present: he turned and began to flee the scene. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to fightófar from itóbut he didn’t want to risk losing the glider whose death he so dearly wanted to implement himself. For a moment, he’d wanted more than anything else to rip out the throat of that arrogant fast runneróor human…whatever it wasóbut he’d decided to leave that to Thud and the other fast biters.

Pangaea, meanwhile, doubted he could have felt more unhappy. Great, he thought sourly. I’m gonna die, Guido’ll be crying his eyes out because of it, half the people and dinosaurs who came to rescue me are going to be hurt or killed, and any GOF members who survive are gonna get kicked out of the valley after Chronicler said those things in front of everybody. And all because I managed to get myself caught by two stinkin’ fast biters while epically failing to keep Ozzy and Strut out of the valley. Surely this is my most disastrous screw-up ever. I wish Screech had just killed me right then and there when he caught me.

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With no hostage to burden him, Thud’s immediate response to Red Claw’s signal had been to pounce, claws and teeth bared, towards the members of the negotiating party, specifically the white fast runner. However, due to his intended target quickly bolting out of the way, and Thud’s own inherent clumsiness, he missed, plunging his snout and claws into the ground. By the time he had reoriented himself (and expelled the dirt and gravel from his teeth and nostrils), it was a melee all around him: fast biters swarming in from all sides, panicked leafeaters struggling to fight them off, frenzied roars, shrieks, and bellows chorusing all around. He paused for a moment, searching for the white fast runner through the rain.

And then Rob hit him, knocking him over onto his side. Thud had been too distracted to see or hear him coming. For a few seconds he lay on the ground, thrashing his tail and slavering furiously as he struggled to get to his feet. In moments, however, Thud had gotten his legs underneath him and stood up. Snarling angrily, he lunged for Rob, his jaws clamping down on his arm. However, Thud had been so eager to strike that he had done so before he had completely regained his footing, and as a result he stumbled to the side, his jaws releasing their hold on Rob’s arm before they could apply much pressure. Still, even the tiniest amount of force was more than sufficient for Thud’s steak-knife teeth to pierce Rob’s flesh.

(OOC: LBTFan13, is it too early for Thud to bite Rob? If you would have preferred having the confrontation last longer, I have no problem with editing this post.)

LBTFan13 · **Reply #1806 on:** November 18, 2010, 02:19:16 AM

((OOC: That's perfectly fine with me Pangaea. I understand you want to get as much of this fight done now, so I can go with it

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Rob was hoping to last long in the fight, to prove to everybody, especially Mr. Threehorn, that he could be of use. When he made contact with Thud he thought he had a chance. Of course, this thought got the best of him as he wasn't prepared to dodge Thud's attack. The fast biter sank his jaws into Rob's arm, and a blinding force of pain shot through his body. Rob screamed out in agony as Thud stumbled back to the ground. Rob had never experienced this much pain in his life, and it was unfortunate that it came at such a time. "Damnit!" he muttered. He tried to regain his bearings, but something took hold of him. His entire body felt insurmountable pain, and he couldn't do anything about it. Rob's legs gave away and he fell to the ground, gripping his arm as the pain continued to surge through his body. "What the hell is happening to me?"

Littlefoot gasped with fear when he saw Rob get injured. "Rob," he whispered. Every instinct in his body wanted to run down and join Longtail, but at the same time he knew that Longtail could take care of himself while he couldn't. He overheard Cera's comment, and for the first time he wanted to forget safety and attack, but he wasn't stupid. "We...we can't," Littlefoot replied. "We can't fight all those fast biters." He frantically looked around for something that they could use to help, and then he noticed a bunch of rocks near them. "Guys, I've got an idea!" He rushed over to the rocks and glanced back down at the fight. "This should be enough distance." With that, Littlefoot started hitting rocks launching rocks at the fast biters with his tail. "Come on guys! Start throwing rocks at them!"

Zaine wanted to call Longtail back, but heknew there was no stopping him. He could see it in the flyer's eyes that he hungered for a fight. He's in control for now. Let's just hope he stays that way. Then Zaine noticed Rob get bitten by Thud, and for a split second he felt the same rage Longtail felt. He wanted to run down there and tear Thud apart. "ROB!" he yelled out. He almost ran down the hill, but then he noticed Littlefoot knocking down the rocks. He rushed over and started frantically launching rocks at the fast biters.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1807 on:** November 18, 2010, 02:52:19 AM

"Aw, s***!" Anna yelped when she saw Thud attack Rob. When Thud let go, Anna wanted to tend to her friend more than anything else. However, she knew she had to neutralize the threat first. On top of that, she was now pissed. She looked over at Thud with a glare like that of a rabid Rottweiler.

"Hurt one of my friends, eh? Now...it's...PERSONAL!" Anna howled as she charged at Thud and knocked him down. She then grabbed Thud, lifted him up, and slammed him against the ground.

"Take that, ya b******!" she yelled before she took a couple of steps back. "C'mon, get up n' fight! Ya think you're so bad!" Suddenly, she felt a sharp pain in her tail.

"Ow! What the-?!" she said in surprise as she glanced back. Sure enough, a fastbiter was starting to bite on her tail.

"Tryin' to literally stab me in the back, eh?!" she cracked before she brought her tail up and slammed it against the ground, stunning the fastbiter. The fastbiter remained in place.

"Ha! That'll teach ya!" Anna hooted. This was shortlived, however, when another fastbiter pounced on her back. The fastbiter she had just attempted to knock out joined the fastbiter.

"Ow, damn! How relentless can these b******s be?!" she said as she tried to shake the fastbiters off herself.

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Cera was about to say something smart to Littlefoot when she saw Anna get attacked. Ducky simply watched in horror.

"Oh, no! These newcomers don't know what they've gotten themselves into!" Cera pointed out.

"I cannot watch anymore, oh no no no!" Ducky cried out.

"Hey, this is not the time to be a scaredy egg! Let's go help Littlefoot!" Cera replied as she and Ducky joined the others in throwing rocks.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #1808 on:** November 18, 2010, 03:31:01 AM

(I'm going to try and delay Longtails attack on Screech so Myrkin can try to save Pangaea)
Longtail was now flying so fast and breathing so hard he was beginning to suffer from tunnel vision, however he knew better than to simply attack without a plan. But the only problem was that the only plan he knew how to use was the element of surprise. But in this moment it would work well, but he wanted to make sure also that when he attacked it was just him and Screech, so despite his speed, and his rising anger Longtail chose to follow Screech until he could be sure they'd be alone.

Cyrix saw Rob get bitten and could see Anna having issues with several fastbiters, he quickly rushed over and gave two fastbiters swift punches to the their snouts and tripped another one with his tail. Once he was a safe distance he grabbed another fastbiter in the face and headbutted him into submission. He then asked, "Anna, are you and Rob alright?!"

Grandma Longneck could see everything that the attack was doing around them... and she was worried. The newcomers may able to shift their form but they were still unprepared for a real sharptooth battle. She however continued to smack and swing her tail at the attackers in an attempt to ward them off of the others in the herd.

Rick was panicking right now, he saw Rob get hurt and he knew there was something... anything he could do. He looked back to the other children, and back down to the fighting hoping he could come up with a plan. Rick then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and listened to the fighting below. He then picked up a baseball sized rock and took a pitchers stance and after counting to three in his head threw the rock as hard as he could, striking a fastbiter in the back of the head.

Kor · **Reply #1809 on:** November 18, 2010, 03:53:58 AM

Flapper continued to fight, remaining in the translike mental condition with his eyes seldom blinking as he swung his club using both hands and not seeming to notice the claws and bites, as if they were happening to someone else.

Grandpa Longneck stepped as he swung his tail around adding some of his mass behind his tail blow to some fastbiters.

Petrie picked up the small rocks he could pick up to throw them, pushing some larger ones down the area they were on.

Myrkin · **Reply #1810 on:** November 18, 2010, 04:13:52 AM

After battle had started Claw noticed that Screech was getting away with Pangea. He didn't know what that other fastbiter was planning to do, but he decided to try to rescue feathered friend, before something bad would happen to him. Claw run after Screech with Chomper right behind. Other sharpteeth seemed to be to busy fighting with other members of leafeater group or perhaps some of them thought Claw and Chomper were on their side as they were sharpteeth, Either way nobody tried to stop them and soon Claw was close enough to Screech to attack him. He stroke with his harpoon at Screech's legs, trying to make other fastbiter lose his balance and knock him over.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1811 on:** November 18, 2010, 10:48:07 AM

"I'm fine, thanks! Not so sure 'bout Rob, though!" Anna replied. She was quickly realizing that, although she was larger and more powerful in her swimmer form, she was not as physically able as she was in her human form. If she were a human and somebody attacked her from behind, she would've grabbed them and flipped them over herself and to the ground in front of her. This was not so easy as a dinosaur. Just then, she noticed a fastbiter approaching her from the front while two others were trying to sneak up from either side of her. She grinned evilly, having seen this behavior demonstrated in "Jurassic Park" before.

"Oooh, I'm really scared," she cracked in sarcasm. She could see that, despite the language barrier, her tone was pissing off the fastbiters. She then brought her clawed hands up to her ears and stuck her tongue out at the fastbiter in front of her. This caused the fastbiter to react, unaware it was in for a Three Stooges. POKE! The fastbiter was temorarily blinded and roared in rage as it rubbed its eyes. Meanwhile, the other two attacked at once. All Anna did was take a step back, and the two fastbiters collided into each other, thus knocking each other out.

"Nice one, numbskulls," she cracked as the remaining fastbiter recomposed itself. It went to attack Anna again, and this time she pulled a fast punch on the fastbiter and knocked it out cold.

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As Cera's group continued to throw rocks, she saw a fastbiter sneaking up on her father. She wanted to alert him but did not want to give away their position. She then found a volleybeall-sized rock, rolled it to the right spot, and swatted it with her tail. Much to her surprise, the rock pegged the fastbiter and knocked it out.

Meanwhile, Ducky kept throwing rocks at any fastbiter she could reach.

The Chronicler · **Reply #1812 on:** November 18, 2010, 11:15:03 AM

After a few minutes of climbing, Chronicler and Ruby were almost at the top of the cliff.

"Why are we doing this?" asked Ruby, who was getting very tired by now. "We are Fast-Runners, not Fast-Climbers."

"I think you'll agree with me that we should help our friends in this fight, but also make sure that we're not directly in harm's way," replied Chronicler. "Besides, I love my Fast-Runner body. If I had to do this with my human body, I would have given up from exhaustion before I even made it half way up."

As they neared the top, they could see a few rocks being hurled over the edge of the cliff. Fortunately for them, those rocks were being thrown with enough speed to easily fly over them. "I wonder who's throwing those rocks," thought Chronicler aloud. Having a long neck, he was able to peek over the edge of the cliff to see who was up there. He saw Littlefoot, Cera, and the rest of the gang. "What the heck are you guys doing here?"

As Ruby approached him, she asked, "Who is it that you see up there?"

"Just a few friends of yours," replied Chronicler as he pulled himself up onto the top of the cliff. He then tossed his bamboo pole aside so he could use both of his hands to pull Ruby up onto the top of the cliff.

After taking a few seconds to catch her breath, Ruby asked,"Now that we are up here, what do we do now?"

"I guess we can follow their example," replied Chronicler, referring to what the gang was doing to help in the fight. Chronicler grabbed a hand-full of small rock and began throwing them one at a time at the Fast-Biters below. Ruby did likewise.

Unfortunately, most of those rocks missed, and whatever ones did hit were only a mild irritation to the Fast-Biters. "I don't think this is working, Chronicler," said Ruby. "We should do something that will work."

Chronicler then noticed a larger rock that was about the size of a Fast-Biter's head. He dropped his hand-full of rocks and said, "Oh well, if it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing." As he said this quote from the TV show Mythbusters, he picked up the larger rock. He then raised the rock and hurled it down towards the Fast-biters. His aim was excellent, as the rock slammed one Fast-Biter right in the head, taking it down with a possibly lethal injury. "Ha! I got one!" Chronicler then picked up another large rock and hurled it down the cliff again.

Ruby wasn't so sure about using such large rocks, so she continued to throw the smaller rocks that were in her hands.

Belmont2500 · **Reply #1813 on:** November 18, 2010, 05:57:07 PM

John paused as he saw Rob lying on the ground just before feeling a sharp,peircing pain down his back. A fast biter has clawed him from behind . John instantly countered with a spin crescent kick which put some distance between him and the fast biter. "You never cease to vex me" he remarked before throwing the sharp stick like a spear which struck the fast biter in the heart before running over to where Rob lay and where Anna and Cyrix were. "What happened" he asked them.

Bron swung his tail hard,knocking many fast biters off their feet "I don't know how much longer I can hold these sharpteeth off" he muttered
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"Like I'm going to stand here and do nothing" Ali said as she begand throwing rocks.

Pangaea · **Reply #1814 on:** November 18, 2010, 10:58:43 PM

Screech stumbled a little when Claw lashed out at him, but he barely managed to regain his balance before he could topple over. He turned and glared at his assailant. “You again?!” he hissed. He glanced down at Claw’s bamboo harpoon. A sharptooth using a stick to fight, he thought with disgust. How obscene.

In a single lightning-fast movement, Screech seized the shaft of the harpoon in his jaws and wrenched it out of Claw’s grasp. Then, with a sharp swing of his head, he flung the thing as far as he could, sending it rolling across the rocky ground several yards away.

“Now,” he snarled, still unaware that Claw couldn’t understand him, “are you going to fight with your teeth and claws like a real sharptooth, or are you going to do the smart thing and STAY OUT OF MY WAY?”

(OOC: Were you hoping for a longer confrontation between Claw and Screech, Myrkin? Or is this okay?)

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1815 on:** November 18, 2010, 11:13:39 PM

"He was bitten by Thud!" Anna panted before she felt her tail get bitten again. She felt her skin break that time.

"Hey! Let go, ya b******!" she growled as she slamemd her tail against the ground. The fastbiter still remained on her tail with its teeth in her skin, but a few more slams of her tail to the ground knocked the fastbiter off. She then brought her tail down once more, smashing the fastbiter in the face and knocking it out.

Amaranthine · **Reply #1816 on:** November 19, 2010, 12:12:16 AM

Three Horn and a few others charged at some fast biters and knocked them out of the way, but what he really wanted to find was Red Claw and hopefully knock him out.

Some fastbiters over took Mr. Three Horn and they snarled and snapped at him, swearing in their own sharptooth tongue. The harder he seemed to fight back, the more the fast biters kept charging.

The female fast biter that Red Claw had spoken to earlier was walking amongst the fight and decided to help her clan with taking down the three horn.

It's not every day you get enough food to feed your whole clan. She licked her chops as she thought of this. So she hid a little ways and once she found a vulnerable spot, she leaped to that spot, but while in mid are a screech was shrilled in her ear and a force knocked her out out the sky and onto the dirt. She grimaced at this force, who was other then a full grown male orange flyer.

"Keep your filthy claws off this dinosaurs!" The flyer screeched and swiped her away and before the fastbiter could rebuke, the flyer lounged at another fast biter to take him off of the struggling Three Horn.
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Red Claw, with his blank "stare" roared and plumaged through the find, stomping over some life bodies and dead bodies alike to smell his ideal prey. He knew her scent, he knew where she would be, but he could not find her.

Unknown to him, he was heading into his own failure, as the rocks were thrown and the bloodshed was spread.
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Amy still hung on to Tria as they ran. Tria suddenly stopped and saw a flyer of something up on a hill.

"Hang on Amy, I'm heading up."

In a huff, she truched up a hill and saw the kids throwing many rocks around and she immediately stated,

"Kids?! What are you doing?! And Cera...!" She gasped when she saw her stepdaughter among them.

This is very, very typical of these kids... Amy thought as she was awaiting for a response. However, due to shyness and being overwelmed by the noise and everything that was happening, she stayed hidden, protected by Tria's frill.
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Rebecca tried to distract fast biters from attacking anyone else by flying in their faces and pecking at them. At the corner of her eye, she saw a glimmer of orange tussling with a fast biter, she immediately knew who it was.

"Get your claws off my brother!" She lounged at the fastbiter and distracted him while Pterano struggled to his feet.

"Rebecca! What are you doing?"

"What are you doing?" She asked in mid sentence as the fast biter tried to swipe at her.

Cancerian Tiger · **Reply #1817 on:** November 19, 2010, 12:28:51 AM

When Anna finally had a moment to look around, she saw Mr. Threehorn was struggling against the fastbiters.

"I'll be back, guys!" she barked before she headed over to Mr. Threehorn. Her tail hurt somewhat and was bleeding, but she did not pay any mind. She then caught two of the fastbiters by surprise and slammed their heads together, knocking them out cold.

"Y'all picked a bad day to look for food!" she hooted, catching some of the fastbiters' attention. One fastbiter jumped at her, only to find moments later it was spitting teeth out.

"Pick on someone I care about, eh?! You're gonna have to deal with me first! Bring it, ya low-life dirtbags!" Anna provoked the fastbiters with the aid of hand gestures.

"A'ight, which punka** of the pack is first!?" she taunted. Several fastbiters seemed to discuss among themselves before they all slowly approached at once.

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"No time to talk! We need to help them!" Cera replied, not even noticing the voice had come from Tria.

Kor · **Reply #1818 on:** November 19, 2010, 12:41:48 AM

Flapper continued fighting as he had before, with Mim jumping around somewhat and getting the idea from Flapper picked up a branch to use it as a club also. Sometimes Flapper would instead of using it as a club use one end to jab it into the belly of a fast biter to knock the wind out of it.

Grandpa Longneck shook himself to try to shake off a fastibiter that had jumped onto his back. Another one he hit with his tail wile it was in mid jump.

Myrkin · **Reply #1819 on:** November 19, 2010, 08:01:19 AM

(It could last longer, if you don't mind

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Claw didn't know what Screech had said, but was too busy thinking how to free Pangea to wonder what other fastbiter might had told him. Claw make a few steps towards dropped harpoon, as if he was going to pick it up, but then he leaped suddenly at Screech's back, trying to sink his teeth in other sharptooth's neck.