Flyers of the Mysterious Beyond

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #320 on:** June 17, 2011, 03:45:18 AM

Fury extended one of his wings and pushed Artie's hand off his back. He then turned to face her with almost uncontrollable rage in his eyes, and yet utter sadness in his voice as he spoke up. "N-no! DO I LOOK OKAY TO YOU?!" His body shuddered as he fell almost limp into Arties arms. As he looked up to her his right eye dilated and changed colors from quartz pink, to sunburst yellow before he began to speak again.

"I... I just..." he quickly sobbed and tried to breath with his voice still weak from his previous scream. "I... just want... the voices in my head... to go away! The screaming... the horrible screaming!" he shouted as he broke down and began to openly sob and cry. "W-why... do I feel... so alone..." he spoke inbetween sobs.

Allicloud · **Reply #321 on:** June 18, 2011, 01:53:35 PM

Redback headed for the path down from the ledge, to the valley floor. Looking back at the flyers, all visibly shaken by Tero's sudden episode and Fury's breakdown, he shook his head and walked down the path.

This is why we do things alone, he thought to himself. So that we don't drag other folk into it if we mess up or something happens! Now some of them probably feel all guilty over Tero, and for no good reason. The mute flyer was a brooder, ever since the accident. This was no fault of theirs.

As he walked down through the valley, he stopped briefly as he past Zin. He reached out a claw and gently stroked the old dinosaur's head. He stirred and opened a massive eye.

"Oh...did I fall asleep again, oh dear.." He muttered as he got up, stretching his back with a satisfying crack. Flexing his claws, he dug one handful of claws into the ground as support and stood up.

"I'm just headin' down for a walk. You wanna come with?" Redback called up to the beast.

"Sounds like an idea. Just gettin' away from it all for a moment, eh?"

The sailback nodded. side by side, the 2 creature set out towards the watering hole, perhaps stop by the trees too for a snack.

Tero, meanwhile, remained in his place on the mountainside. He looked down at the flyers below him, some looking up at him.
He sniffed derisively and turned his gaze out to the horizon.

vonboy · **Reply #322 on:** June 18, 2011, 02:12:36 PM

(OCC: Here's Chomper!)

In a dense forest in the Mysterious Beyond, a small Iguanodon hatchling was running for his life! He scampered through a bush, and only seconds later, a sharptooth broke through the same bush, hungry for meat!

This just wasn't any sharptooth, mind you. It was Chomper, the Friendly Sharptooth! Or at least, he used to be. That's what he thought to himself as he barreled towards the hatchling. He didn't WANT to eat a hatchling, really he didn't, but things had been going awful for him lately. He hadn't eaten in days, and his hunger pangs were getting worse by the day. He knew he had to eat something, or he wouldn't be alive for much longer.

As the poor hatchling continued in it's struggle for survival, it stumbled down an incline, and fell right on top of a Sailback named Redback. Terrified at seeing another sharptooth; One much bigger than the one already after him even; he jumped off and ran away as fast as he could.

Now it came time for the Friendly Sharptooth to do the same. Chomper fell down the same incline, and bounced off the same Sailback. Chomper looked back at the sharptooth, obviously very scared. "A..Another sharptooth!" Was all he could get out.

Allicloud · **Reply #323 on:** June 18, 2011, 03:25:39 PM

As Redback and Zin wandered inbetween two ledges, the former was startled as he felt a weight land on his head. He watched the bundle fall, and saw it was another sharptooth.

Finally, some action! Tensing up, he took up a defensive stance, tail balancing him out, head lowered, eyes wide open, claws bared. He watched the sharptooth for any movement, ready to block or defend him.
Zin followed suit, holding his claws before him, one set clenched into a point, the other fanned out.
Redback grinned his massive teeth, saliva dripping from his two massive canines, as they jutted almost past his jawline. Stepping slowly forward, he leaned in close to the sharptooth and snarled.

But then he stopped, as he heard the little sharptooth speak.

"Wait....You just spoke..."

The small sharptooth nodded timidly, clearly terrified.

"You spoke..leafspeak...? H-how do ya know leafspeak?!"

He stood up and backed off.

(OOC: Leafspeak is just my term for the language of the leaf-eaters. Bit of creative liberties there..)

vonboy · **Reply #324 on:** June 18, 2011, 03:36:35 PM

"Well...I learned it from some leafeaters." Chomper spoke up, still a little tense. "I'm kind of surprised that YOU know leafeater though. I always thought I was the only sharptooth that knew how to speak that."

He looked at the sailback, still fascinated at it. He never saw a dinosaur like this one before.

"Could I ask, what kind of sharptooth are you?"

Allicloud · **Reply #325 on:** June 18, 2011, 04:36:05 PM

Redback smiled down at the smaller sharptooth. he didn't seem like the "rip your throat out and turn your ribs inside out" kind of sharptooth he was used to.

"Hmm.. I'm a sailbacked-sharptooth. Redback's the name. This here's my friend, Zin."

He pointed up to the longfinger standing behind him, who smiled and waved a hand at him "Pleased to meet you, I'm sure."

The sailback smiled and leaned in a bit closer to Chomper "You gotta speak up with him... And speaking of speaking, yeah, I learned it from a leafeater friend of mine..." He then thought back to whatever had happened to Tero. He hoped that he was okay.

"Anyways, what's yer name then? And what's a kid like you doing all alone out here?"

vonboy · **Reply #326 on:** June 18, 2011, 04:48:44 PM

"Well, My name is Chomper."

"And...I wasn't alone too long ago. You see, I used to live in the Great Valley, but a few weeks ago the elders told me I finally had to leave. They said I was getting too big, and that little ground crawlers and stuff like that weren't enough for me anymore."

Chomper paused for a moment as he collected his thoughts to talk about it some more.

"Anyway, I knew what they meant by that. I had to start eating REAL meat now. I really love everybody there, but not as food! So, I've been trying to live out here since then."

Chomper looked down at the ground, as his stomach growled loudly.

Allicloud · **Reply #327 on:** June 18, 2011, 05:36:59 PM

Redback chuckled as he heard the rumbling of Chomper's stomach.

"Heheh, peckish are ya? Well, I know a nice place nearby. A little grove of trees, with a little pond. There's some nice little lizards there sometimes, and some groudn crawlers... But, well... you'll have to be a bit discrete about the lizards. We share the grove with some other leafeaters."

"Redback and us are friends with them. You wanna meet them?"

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #328 on:** June 18, 2011, 07:11:51 PM

*Holy shoot! How long have I been gone! Man! I go spend the night at someone's house and look how much changes take place! Seriously!

)

Artie took the sobbing glider into her gentle arms. "Oh, you poor thing..." She told the little critter. "Look at me. You are not alone. You are never alone. I care about you. And obviously so does Harper and Petrie. And so does Pterano." She smiled at the red flyer sending the glider a reassuring smile.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #329 on:** June 18, 2011, 10:33:46 PM

It was a bit eerie, and Harper felt sort of frozen in the moment as Tero did open his eyes and made eye contact with her before giving that...maybe smile, maybe not. Either way the young one just watched, curious and now hopeful like children could be that maybe everything was ok now. She didn't drop this thought either, even as the silent flyer stood and walked on. Redback's words seemed to sum everything up, he was just...like that.

She and Petrie both just glanced at each other as Redback suggested someone talking to him. "He look at you and not snap" Petrie seemed to be using this as enough evidence that she should go try it! Well, sure he had, but that wasn't enough to go talking to him...was it? For her, just some kid?

She also noticed how shaken Fury was. "Me take him this time" Petrie offered, "you alteast not get snapped at, so you go talk to other flyer" he pointed. It was worth a shot, Harper figured, so she stepped out a bit, but still just looked to where Tero was rather than rush over or anything.

vonboy · **Reply #330 on:** June 19, 2011, 04:09:47 AM

"Yes, I would love to meet your leafeater friends! ...and get a bite to eat, too."

Chomper was suddenly filled with almost a sense of belonging. Ne had never met another friendly sharptooth before. He didn't really know what to think of it.

Chomper started to follow Redback and Zin to their little pond.

Allicloud · **Reply #331 on:** June 19, 2011, 08:27:35 AM

Redback beckoned with a claw, and the trio headed back towards the mountain.

"So, the folks we share the grove with are a bunch of flyers. They're alright folk, if you can convince them yer not gonna hurt them."

he rubbed the small welt that remained on his head, from that rock that Luke had thrown at him

"But they're nice enough. They all live up in these caves in a mountainside. You got a couple grownups, a bunch of teenagers, and we just got a few kids too. So like I said, you'll have to be a bit discrete about eating lizards and crawlers.
Me, Zin and another one of my friends, Tero, we live down in the grove. Too big for caves, y'see. I'm used to sleepin' rough anyways."

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #332 on:** June 19, 2011, 01:36:59 PM

Fury looked up at Artie and cried harder. He wanted more than anything to believe her, and some small part of him deep down inside his heart he did trust her words, but everything else just seemed too hopeless. As he cried and sobbed, several of his feathers began to change color as well... from their sky blue tint to a darker, midnight blue. And some of his sadness turned to anger. "I... I don't... want your pity! I need your.... h-help." he then cried again.

"I can still see.... the fire... the horrible, red burning fire... as it burns the green food... and kills the others... all of them. No survivors... not even in the sky.... the flying rocks strike them down too. Just... just like... it killed my mother." said Fury as he stared into Arties eyes. He couldn't tell what emotion he was feeling, or if he was feeling anything at all. He simply knew that he had to talk, and as he did his voice began to change too, becoming harsher, almost more sharptooth like.

vonboy · **Reply #333 on:** June 19, 2011, 01:51:44 PM

As Redback, Zin, and Chomper came up to the area Redback spoke off earlier, Chomper went off to the side in some bushes to look for something to eat. He grabbed a lizard, looked around to make sure no one was looking, and horked it down. He was still hungry after that, but he figured he could find something else around here later.

As Chomper stepped out of the bushes, he looked up at the cave the flyers stayed in. On the ledge, he saw three flyers. An older one he didn't know, but two young ones he DID know.

"Hey, Redback! I think I know some of those flyers!"

Mama's Girl · **Reply #334 on:** June 19, 2011, 02:39:32 PM

As Petrie stayed nearby, listening to what Fury said, he began to rethink his being able to help like he'd told Harper he could. Oh well, Miss Artie seemed to have it really, even if the little one didn't like what he could hear of some horrible disaster or something and Fury's mother being killed apparently. It all sounded too horrible to fathom. The changing color bypassed the little flyer's notice as he thought it a trick of the light, if anything, though he frowned wondering if he'd heard right as a different inflection came to the voice.

Harper had just made up her mind to walk over and actually talk to Tero, when she noticed movement down below and looked. It was the nice sharpteeth from before. With a new one though, looking about their age and...wait? Hadn't she seen that one before? Yeah! She had! He was the one who had been in the Great Valley. The one Petrie always hung around. Harper hadn't freaked out as much as some of the others at their brother having a sharptooth friend, trying to give people the benefit of a doubt, but she did worry at times. Still, this one had saved their mom once, Chip or Chomp or something? Chomper! That was it!

"Wow! It's you!" she flapped down closer. "H-Hey Petrie!" she called up to the ledge. Petrie soon popped his head over the top, looking curious as to why his sister had called before he saw the sharpteeth, and most importantly the newest one. They'd still been in the Valley when Chomper had been asked to leave. Petrie's curious look turned to happiness. "Chomper!" he flew down to hug the sharptooth's snout.

Jrd89 · **Reply #335 on:** June 19, 2011, 03:18:53 PM

*Guys, I'm gonna be very busy for the next 3 days... I'm working today from 5:30-10 tonight, 7:15 am.-4pm tomorrow, 2-10pm on tuesday, and 4:15-10pm on Wed. I have this Thurs. and Fri. off, though. (that's eastern time, BTW.)...I'll be pretty busy, but i'll be here to work on "flyers" when I can in my free time.

Anyways, it's time to meet Chomper!

*

Jared opened his wings and shrugged his shoulders... "Chomper? Who's Chomper? Is he a friend of Petrie's?"

Allicloud · **Reply #336 on:** June 19, 2011, 04:54:41 PM

(I might be pretty busy this week too. I got work experience, 9-5, working down at a warehouse.)

Redback was taken aback at the reaction of the two young flyers. But it was obvious that they knew Chomper.

"You guys know this sharptooth?!"

Zin smiled gently "Well, this is a strange turn of events."

Tero, meanwhile, watched from his perch high on the mountainside. He could see that Redback and Zin had returned, with yet another new member of this little comminuty.
A cold gust of wind made him shiver, and he drew his wings around him like a blanket.

vonboy · **Reply #337 on:** June 19, 2011, 05:05:09 PM

"I didn't think I'd ever see you guys again!" Chomper beamed as he brought the two little flyers down to give them a hug of their own.

He didn't really know what was going on though. What was Petrie and Harper doing out in the Mysterious Beyond? And alone? Petrie was always with the Gang, and Harper NEVER wanted to leave the Great Valley, even though he always tried to talk her into it.

"What are you guys doing out here? Is the rest of the Gang here, Petrie?"

bushwacked · **Reply #338 on:** June 19, 2011, 06:55:23 PM

"You're in a gang, Petrie?" Luke smirked, looking at the tiny flyer. "You don't really look like gang material to me..."

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #339 on:** June 19, 2011, 07:17:05 PM

Pterano turned to the cave opening to see Petrie and Harper was talking to someone. "Who could be out there in this time of night?" He wondered as he flew out into the opening and look what he saw...

A blue talking sharptooth.

His eyes went as wide as plates. "Oh my...GAGGGHHHH!!!!!!!" He shouted. "T-T-T-TALKING SHARPTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" With that, he dashed back into the cave, but he was flying too fast and he rammed into the wall, getting his beak stuck in the dirt. He grabbed his crest and pulled his beak out. "Uncle Pterano no feel so good..." He collapsed to the ground and opened his eyes to see Devon and Artie staring down at him.

"Seriously, Pterano? You don't mind fighting off big sharpteeth but yer scared to death of this little one?" She face palmed. "Man, what is wrong witchu?"

Pterano just grinned innocently.

(Pterano just does the dumbest things, doesn't he?

)