Flyers of the Mysterious Beyond

Jrd89 · **Reply #580 on:** July 08, 2011, 11:14:36 PM

*Jared heard Harper, woke right up, jumped out of bed and looked at her with shock...*

"What, Harper?? :blink: Something's wrong with PTERANO?! Noo! We gotta go help him... now!" then Jared shouted so all the flyers (whether they were inside or outside the cave) could hear him..

"HEY EVERYONE!!!, LISTEN UP!!!, SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH PTERANO!!!"

Then, Jared flew right up to Harper.. "Harper, can you tell me what happened to your uncle? Is he hurt? Ohhhh.. :unsure: I'll do whatever I can to help Pterano... We all will."

Mama's Girl · **Reply #581 on:** July 09, 2011, 12:01:16 AM

"I...I don't know" Harper went on, thinking back through everything and putting together what had happened, "His stomach did seem to bother him before, but he said it was fine and so we flew on but then he started coughing and just fainted. Devon and Petrie are with him now".

Jrd89 · **Reply #582 on:** July 09, 2011, 12:16:29 AM

"So, he had stomach problems... a coughing fit... and then he fainted? Aww man. We've gotta help him! Harper, fly us to your uncle, now."

"You lead the way, and i'll fly right behind you, ok?" Jared told Harper.

Pterano · **Reply #583 on:** July 09, 2011, 01:44:05 AM

Rinkus wrung his tail in frustration as he came awake and heard the news. He blinked a few times, trying to clear his eyes. "Here now... that's not good. We should go and see what the matter is, yes?" he suggested, and nodded at Jared's suggestion. "By the way... is Sierra there?" Rinkus asked, looking down at Harper.

Allicloud · **Reply #584 on:** July 09, 2011, 04:22:53 AM

Before Harper could reply, Tero nodded. he had seen Sierra out there.

"Well, no use just hanging around here talking about what's happened. Let's see it for ourselves!" Redback stated, before taking control of the situation. He knew how flyers could easily get aggravated and panicky.

"C'mon Tero! You saw where they went, let's go!!"

Tero opened his wings and flapped into the air in the direction of the lake. Redback, meanwhile, leapt down from the ledge and followed from ground level.
Zin was startled to see such a hurried exit, and called to his friends "Tero! Red! What's the hurry?"

"There's some trouble down by the lake! Somethin's happened to one of the flyers!"

Zin hobbled as fast as he could behind him, keeping his eyes on Tero up in the sky.

vonboy · **Reply #585 on:** July 09, 2011, 05:03:31 AM

Chomper looked on at the whole scene, not quite sure what to say or do. He wanted to help, but he couldn't really think of anything to do.

"Does he need some water? Would that help?"

bushwacked · **Reply #586 on:** July 09, 2011, 05:55:45 AM

Luke hurried to the entrance of the cave. "Wait! What if he's contagious?!" he yelled to the others. "Oh! Don't blame me if you get sick!"

Sighing he turned to Jared. "Fine, then. Let's go see what we can do." He took off and hurried to catch up with Tero.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #587 on:** July 09, 2011, 10:54:51 AM

Such much rested on her shoulders, having to be the one to show them back to the spot and not get lost, that it was a bit much, but Harper also knew she couldn't focus on that. Plus she'd found her way here, back was no problem after that.

She just nodded to Jared. Her gaze went over to Rinkus as he asked his question. It was odd but she hadn't recalled where Sierra had gone, though he had been with them. Tero's nod helped with what she thought had happened. "Um, not where they are no, but he was. I think he...flew off again like he does" was her best answer.

(ooc: I'm lost myself and couldn't find it in the back posts, though I probably just didn't go far enough, Sierra was at first there and then flew off before they went to get the fish right?)

Tero taking off helped spur her too though and she quickly took to the air, "But yeah, it was this way" she said, following after Tero and along the same way back towards where Pterano was.

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Meanwhile back with Pterano, Petrie heard what Chomper said. "M-maybe water helped..." he was really just trying to think of anything that would help. He frowned, "Where Harper, how long it take to get others!" he sighed.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #588 on:** July 10, 2011, 12:44:45 AM

"I'm not sure, Petrie," Devon said, sighing in disappointment. "That would have made sense, but you don't faint from dehydration after having severe stomach pains." the blue flyer sighed, taking Pterano's hand in his and whispered the words, "Hang in there..."

What they heard next nearly made them jump. "Hello boys, did you miss me?"

Allicloud · **Reply #589 on:** July 10, 2011, 04:26:57 AM

Tero was the first to arrive. He saw the group of flyers down on the ground, huddled around Pterano, and glided down to earth by their side.

Redback was second, rounding a bend and skidding to a halt "...we..we're here! What's happening?"

Zin stomped behind, keeping up well for one so old "We heard someone was sick..."

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #590 on:** July 10, 2011, 01:17:20 PM

Artie was the next to land with Fury on her back. "What's happened? Is he okay?" she asked, just as worried as Petrie and Devon.

"I don't know! He just started coughing and well..." his voice drifted off, gazing at the ill fated flyer next to him. "He did have a few stomach pains earlier..."

"Hey! I know that sickness!" Artie shouted, rushing to Petrie and Devon's side. "But..." she trailed off. She knew with this disease being so fatal, the next days could be Pterano's very last.

bushwacked · **Reply #591 on:** July 10, 2011, 01:27:43 PM

As he landed, Luke covered his beak with a wing. "You know his disease?" he asked Artie, his voice muffled. "Is it catching?"

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #592 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:06:33 PM

"Yeah, it is said to be the Abdominal Flu." She described. "It's caused by either a scent of a poisonous plant or if there's something wrong with the stomach area."

Devon listened very carefully. "Is there some kind of cure?" he asked, hopefully.

Artie shook her head. "That's the sad part. No dinosaur has ever found the cure for this disease. It may not be contagioius, it is very deadly and it can kill even the largest longneck in a matter of days. And very few dinosaurs survive this illness." She gazed down at the ground in disappointment.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #593 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:07:19 PM

Well she'd got them here, Harper thought as they landed. Ok her and Tero had got them here, still she'd done all she knew how so now was just the waiting period or the finding out what was wrong period.

Hope flooded the little flyer as Artie said she knew what it was. Harper smiled, "Really? So he'll be ok?". In the child's mind knowing what the sickness was equalled everything being ok.

"What...what he got?" Petrie asked. He couldn't feel hopeful until Pterano was back up and well.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #594 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:13:53 PM

Artie closed her eyes tightly, she didn't want to tell those poor kids this. She sighed, a tear falling down her eye. "I'm afraid not, Harper. There's a very high chance that the next few days maybe Pterano's very last. I'm sorry."

Mama's Girl · **Reply #595 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:33:24 PM

Slowly a frown overtook the smile that had been on Harper's face. "Oh..." she glanced down, coming to terms with the words that didn't really seem to register. Her frown was all that showed the news hitting. Like how when she was really frustrated with Petrie back during the Day of the Flyers, she'd still stayed quiet and not yelled at him so much as just thought all her thoughts to herself, she did the same here, not even crying, yet anyway, just...pondering. Just coming to terms.

Then her thoughtful nature extended to her brother and she put a hand on Petrie's shoulder.

Petrie's reaction was different. He too stared for the longest time, not able to make the words make sense. He just stared at Artie in shock. Then he felt the hand on his shoulder and glanced over to his sister. Both the touch and her own frown seemed to put it all in place for the little flyer.

"N-no, you lying!" he turned back to accuse of Artie.

Harper closed her eyes, "Petrie..." she began to try.

"No!" Petrie swat his sister's hand away and stepped back, as if shrugging off the comfort would somehow shrug off what was happening too. "You...you both wrong, Uncle Pterano gonna be fine, he...he not...".

All the emotions hitting at once choked any other words from Petrie's beak and as tears finally began to fall, he turned and, without a word, began to fly off.

"Petrie, come back" Harper flew after.

"No, leave me alone!" at the snap in her brother's voice, Harper paused mid air as Petrie continued on into a nearby tree. She understood though, only able to guess at what was going through him. Slowly she drifted back down to the ground, staring up at the branches where Petrie was in pity and sadness.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #596 on:** July 10, 2011, 02:43:12 PM

"Petrie!" she tried to call, but he flew away too fast. Poor kid, she thought to herself. Losing an uncle sucks.

She snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a low voice. "Go after him." she turned to see a green spiketail. "I'll keep watch over Pterano."

Devon turned to the elderly spiketail before him. "Who are you?"

"I'm Joe." the spiketail replied, stopping beside Pterano.

Artie gazed at him, not sure if she should trust this stranger. She didn't want to leave Pterano, but she didn't want to leave Petrie either. She nodded at him, and took off, heading in Petrie's direction. Joe gazed at her before turning to Devon. "What happened?"

Artie landed on the treebranch next to the young flyer. "Petrie..."

Allicloud · **Reply #597 on:** July 10, 2011, 05:23:02 PM

Tero stepped forwards and knelt down by Pterano's side. Gently pushing Artie a little away from the prone flyer, he put his ear to Pterano's chest and was still for a few moments.

Then, he started tapping his good foot in a rhythmic pattern. He would tap his foot twice rapidly, then pause for a moment, then tap twice again. With one of his wings he started a strange motion, flapping it up and down, raising his arm up quickly, then letting it drop slowly. Occasionally, he would let his arm drop equally fast as it rose.

"Atta boy, Tero. Good for you, makin' yerself useful." Redback called from the back of the group. He then went on to explain to the confused others "This is a little trick me and Tero use sometimes out in the beyond."

He omitted the fact that it was used to check how long it would take for their prey to die, and continued "He's tapping his foot in time with Pterano's heartbeat. Looks like it's slower than normal." He added, putting a claw to his chest to measure Pterano's pulse against his own.

"And that flapping motion is his breathing, I presume." Zin added

Redback nodded "Yep..." He would have remarked on how shallow and rapid it was becoming, but emotions were already high enough. So the sharptooth stayed quiet, shuffling his feet awkwardly, his blacked grass adornment rustling gently.

Jrd89 · **Reply #598 on:** July 10, 2011, 09:01:44 PM

*nice communication, Tero!*

"Uh-oh..Pterano's heartbeat is slowing down...that's not good...ohhhh..." said Jared walking up to Tero and Pterano... "But..what can I do? There has to be a way to save him..." *Sniff!*

said Jared, holding his tail..as tears ran off his beak and ran down the front of him...

"Please, Pterano...don't die... we're all here for you." whispered Jared (who could barely speak).. to the unconscious Pterano.. then he turned to the others..

"Awww guys, Petrie's so upset. I hate seeing him this sad.. OHH guys...*sniff* what do I do? We gotta save Pterano...Oth--oth--otherwise...he..he...he...he...he..he'll...he'll..he'll d-d-d-d-d-d-die! *SNIIIIIF!* " said Jared.. with a broken up voice, twisting his tail with worry...

"Hang in there, Pterano...we're all here for you" said Jared.. patting the red flyer's shoulder.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #599 on:** July 10, 2011, 10:13:05 PM

Petrie would have told Artie, maybe not so snappishly, to go away too, but the little flyer was beyond being able to really talk. He just sat there sniffling, head burried in his wings.

"Me...me can't lose him" he said, "He all me got". This was a bit understatement considering the young flyer's mother and siblings, but it was on line with how he felt right now. For people who truly understood him, there was only one flyer that did.

On the ground, and hoping Miss Artie could get through to Petrie, Harper watched Tero's actions. Maybe it was her almost breaking through to him before, but despite his not talking, Harper trusted the silent flyer more than she perhaps had any proof to. Glancing back to Reback as the sharptooth explained, she glanced over to Tero again, now with this info, trying to translate what was being sad and if it would be good or bad news for her uncle. It wasn't really looking good.