Flyers of the Mysterious Beyond

Pterano · **Reply #200 on:** May 27, 2011, 12:16:27 AM

Back at the cave, Rinkus was trying to calm Sierra down. Everyone else had gone off for the moment, and Rinkus was considering joining them, but first he wanted to ensure that Sierra was at least in a semi-sedate mood before he did so.

"Now just please try and stay calm. I know it must make you very angry, Pterano being with your son and all, but I'm sure..."

"That failure's stolen everything from me!" Sierra snapped, shoving Rinkus away as he sat down on a rock. "He took our chance at getting that Stone of Cold... Fire Thingy... and he kept stopping my chance for revenge on those overgrown eggs! And he took my son. MY son!" Sierra bared his teeth, and snarled at Rinkus.

"Yes, I know... but it seems Devon has made up his mind, yes? I'm going to try and find them."

"Then go! Get out of here! You don't understand either! Just get away!" Sierra barked, pushing Rinkus back with both hands.

Rinkus said nothing further, shaking his head sadly as he turned and flapped into the air, taking to the skies to try and find out where the others had gotten off to. Sierra would calm down... or at least Rinkus hoped he would calm down. Perhaps some time alone would do him good.

bushwacked · **Reply #201 on:** May 27, 2011, 06:01:06 PM

Looking up, Luke noticed Rinkus flying down towards them.

Waving to catch his attention, he said "Hey, where's Sierra? Doesn't he want to spend any time with his son? It looks like Pterano's getting most of Devon's attention..."

Pterano · **Reply #202 on:** May 27, 2011, 06:08:56 PM

"Er yes, well, you see..." Rinkus glided down to the others, and flapped his wings in order to effect a safe landing. "I'm not sure Sierra is taking any of this very well at the moment. And on top of that, I'm not quite sure that Devon and Sierra had an exactly... balanced relationship to begin with." the pink rhamphorhyncus stated, giving Devon a smile as he did so.

"As it is, I think he'll be holed up in the cave for a bit. So what has everyone been doing in the meantime, eh?" he asked, looking around at the gathered group, and noticing there were a few new additions as well.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #203 on:** May 27, 2011, 09:52:46 PM

Devon just smiled at the tan rhamphorhynchus. "Well you seem like a nice flyer yourself. Sure! I'd love to be friend with you!" He put an arm around the tan flyer. "So tell me. What do you like to do in yer spare time?" The two walked into the cave.

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Pterano just smiled at the little kid. "Well I'm glad to see you to. My name is Pterano. Welcome aboard!"

Artie couldn't help but chuckle at her friend and Fury. They just looked so cute. Pterano sure loves kids now doesn't he?

Mama's Girl · **Reply #204 on:** May 28, 2011, 12:11:41 AM

Both little hatchlings smiled to Jared as well, he was definately friendly and their Uncle Pterano seemed to have found a lot of new friends. Petrie and Harper were both glad since it probably meant he hadn't been too lonely.

Noticing how nervous the other hatchling, Fury, seemed, Harper was about to try and say something else when someone else entering the cave caught her attention, but more of Petrie's.

Harper had never really seen much if anything of her uncle's ex-henchmen, just hearing of them mostly, but Petrie definately remembered them! With an all but squeak and jumped up and darted behind Pterano, "W-what you doing back with mean flyers?" he asked, peaking past Pterano's wing fearfully before darting back down.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #205 on:** May 28, 2011, 01:51:17 AM

Fury was confused, but what else could he be. He'd never met any of these flyers before, but even without knowing who they were, he could still feel the tension in the air as he saw Petrie hide behind Pterano. He shifted his body around and was about to ask a question when he gave a short cry in pain. Fury then placed a claw against his body and could feel a scar running down his belly.

Ignoring the pain for the moment, he turned and asked Petrie and Harper. "What are you talking about? Your uncle knows these guys? And why are you saying they're bad?" He stopped speaking for a moment to gaze at Rinkus and smiled. "He seems nice to me." continued Fury with another smile.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #206 on:** May 28, 2011, 01:54:41 AM

"Well I caught up with them one night and found that they were wounded by the smoking mountains. So being the very important creature I really am," Pterano explained, being his total ego self for Petrie's and Harper's amusement. "I took them in and gave them a second chance. Rinkus has changed alot since then. He's become a very nice flyer. But Sierra..." Pterano paused. "Well let's just say that he hasn't changed one bit. Though he is growing a bit less violent. I'm totally grateful for that."

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #207 on:** May 28, 2011, 02:23:57 AM

Fury now had a mild understanding of the situation and he nodded his head to show that he understood, but as he went to respond he took a deep breath, too deep as it caused his wound to flare in red hot pain. The young Archaeopteryx crumpled to the floor holding his belly in pain. The sudden flash of pain brought with it a momentary relapse of a the fight that gave Fury the scar.

Fury was standing in front of a herd of spike tails, and they were glaring at the child as if he'd done something wrong. Fury looked around with a mixture of fear and anger. "H-how dare you do this to me?! You asked me for the truth and I've told you everything.... and even now... you still want to send me away?! WHY?!?" cried Fury.

The Spiketail leader laughed as he replied, in a gruff and uncaring voice. "Who said you get to leave with your life... you're going to die here and now! KILL THE FREAK!" he shouted. Fury fought as well as he could, even flapping his wings and trying to stay in the sky, but one lucky swing of those spiked tails, was all it took to bring the glider down to the ground and after another few minutes was left in the hot, burning sun of the Mysterious Beyond to die.

Fury opened his eyes from the flashback and took another few breaths and looked down at the ground not wanting to see how the other flyers were going to react to his strange behavior.

Jrd89 · **Reply #208 on:** May 28, 2011, 03:41:18 AM

Jared thought..."Well, Devon, I love to go fishing. I'm a GREAT fisher.

And I also enjoy flying around checking out neat places to see. I know i'm shy, but i'm a really nice, fun flyer to be with. You and I are gonna get along great!"

"Now, Devon, what do you like to do?" asked Jared, patting Devon gently on the shoulder.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #209 on:** May 28, 2011, 10:24:39 AM

Petrie did peek out and listen as Pterano told them of how he'd found and was even helping Rinkus and Sierra. It...it did sound like a nice thing to do, and even like something that could be used for proof that Pterano had changed when he could come back, maybe.

"Oh...well then...ok" Petrie came out and glanced over to Rinkus again, trying for a small smile, but knowing the might still take some time to get use to. He didn't really much like to hear what his uncle said on Sierra, who sounded the same. But then he figured Uncle Pterano could probably take care of him, like he'd said he would with the sharpteeth, who also turned out to be nice.

Harper was about to say something when she noticed Fury cry out in pain, for the second time it seemed, and she noticed a scar. She flapped down and looked at him as he seemed to be dazed off but then came back. "Are you ok, Fury?" she asked when he opened his eyes.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #210 on:** May 28, 2011, 12:30:25 PM

"Well, I like to go fishing as well. But it's no fun without Pterano around." Devon sighed. "He and I would catch loads of fish for both lunch and dinner. So we could save some for dinner as well. We would have a blast doing it. I'm not kidding, we would either be having a huge water fight, flying and looking for fish or just relaxing on the beach, eating the fish and telling jokes. In fact there was one time in which Pterano and I were crazy enough to go fishing in an upcoming storm. It was fun, until Pterano nearly got hit by lightning and decided we should go home with what we got." Devon sighed again, staring at the older flyer that was watching over Artie and Fury. "I'm telling ya, he's the best father ever. I actually have someone I can count on because of him."

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #211 on:** May 28, 2011, 02:02:38 PM

Fury didn't want to admit it, but to hear the pure concern in Harpers voice was soothing for some reason the child couldn't explain. He looked at Harper for several moments before opening his mouth to speak. "Y-yeah... I'll be alright. It's just a scar... still hurts when I touch it though." He slowly stood up and sighed. "Harper, is it normal to think that no one cares about me?" he asked openly. Truth be told Fury wasn't sure why he was being so open to this group of flyers, but something about them gave him hope.

Allicloud · **Reply #212 on:** May 28, 2011, 02:38:06 PM

Tero, Zin and Redback all looked to eachother, feeling slightly awkward about the whole situation.

"Hey, uh, fellas? What do you say we go get somethin' to eat?"

Tero nodded, and looked down to Zin, who nodded too.

"Hmm, sounds like a good idea. We haven't eaten in a while."

The trio made a hasty exit from the ledge of the cave entrance, and headed over to the small grove of trees. Tero flew to the top of the tree, picking out the choices treestars, while Redback foraged for crawlers, and the occasional lizard, which he covertly chomped in one go. Zin, meanwhile, put his massive claws to good use, stripping the branches, and feeding the handfuls of treestars into his mouth.

bushwacked · **Reply #213 on:** May 28, 2011, 06:35:45 PM

Watching Devon relaxing with Pterano, Luke couldn't help but feel bad for Sierra, who still hadn't emerged from the cave. Without a word, he flew up to the entrance of the cave and peered in. He couldn't see Sierra anywhere.

"Hey, Sierra?" He called out, stepping inside tentatively, "Are you ok? Rinkus said you weren't exactly happy with what's going on between Devon and Pterano..."

Mama's Girl · **Reply #214 on:** May 28, 2011, 08:59:22 PM

Harper had never heard of such a question before as the one Fury asked, so she had to think for a bit. Was it normal to think no one...well not really, but could she really just tell him that, like that?

"Well..." she began, "I...it's not good, to think like that, I mean, you gotta have someone you can...look to and trust; well don't have to, I mean you should, it..." the flyer sighed, she was messing this all up.

"I guess it would be normal and understandable if something happened to you to make you think like that" she instead answered, "but...well you have people to care for you, since I've noticed Miss Artie here does and, and I think you already hooked my uncle into watching you too" she smiled glancing back to the two adults.

"And...well I already think of ya as a friend" she shrugged, "if that's ok...so, yeah I'd say you have alot of people to care for you...if you want".

She wasn't sure where this 'grand speech' had come from and would never have thought she'd be inspiring or anything, but had just spoken honestly and from what she actually felt, even if being still a kid she didn't have everything figured out either.

The Great Valley Guardian · **Reply #215 on:** May 29, 2011, 03:10:47 AM

Fury listened to Harpers answer to his question, and truth be told, he not only agreed with what she said, but something in his heart clicked and a warm, caring, almost burning feeling filled his body. The more he thought about it the more and more Harper was right.

Several tears fell from his eyes and slid down his face as he slowly began to cry. These weren't tears of sorrow, but indeed tears of joy. Fury for the first time in a long, long time felt as if there weas somewhere he finally belonged.

Fury's next move was unexpected even for him, but he reached forward and hugged Harper tightly as he continued to cry and sob. "T-thank you... thank you for giving me hope." he said inbetween sobs.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #216 on:** May 29, 2011, 08:50:08 AM

Pterano patted Fury's head as Artie placed a hand on his shoulder. "Harper's right. You do have someone you could look up to. In fact you have lots!" he chuckled. "Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you." He turned to his young niece and smiled at her proudly. "A speech well done, Harper. I must say I am very proud of you." He placed a fatherly hand on her shoulder, rubbing it lightly.

Pterano · **Reply #217 on:** May 29, 2011, 10:12:45 AM

Sierra heard Luke approaching from the entrance of the cave, though did not reveal himself at this time as he was quite far in the back. What did that green flyer want now?

He snarled a little, though mostly to himself, and turned his head (as his back was to the cave entrance) and called back out. "Am I OK? No! I'm not OK!" he snapped. "What are you doing back here anyway? Don't you have... other things to do?" he asked, pausing as he couldn't think of better words to say.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #218 on:** May 29, 2011, 10:57:22 AM

Harper at first looked shocked as Fury rushed over and hugged her, but then she smiled hugging her new friend back, "You're welcome" she said.

As Pterano smiled back at her and laid a hand on her shoulder, Harper glanced down but smiled at the praise. She knew that she counted her mom being proud of her as the most important thing ever, but she never would have imagined that Pterano saying he was proud of her would make her feel so good either.

"Yeah, where that come from?" Petrie asked his sister.

"Oh hush" Harper gave him a small playful push.

bushwacked · **Reply #219 on:** May 29, 2011, 04:38:13 PM

Luke paused at Sierra's question. "Other things to do?" He shrugged. "No." Stepping closer, he continued; "I just thought maybe you should talk to Pterano about how you feel."

Then he stopped. He grinned slyly, realising he could have some fun here. "Or maybe you should show him how you feel. Because it doesn't look like words are gonna quite do the trick..." Smirking, Luke crossed his wings and watched Sierra to observe his reaction.