The Continuing Saga

Allicloud · **Reply #160 on:** July 22, 2011, 04:58:17 AM

Redback's head was in a whirl. So much was going on, he could barely keep up!
Granted, most of it seemed to be relatively positive reactions to himself, such as the rainbowface couple. He smiled down at them "So, you know these two, eh Littlefoot?"

His attention then turned to the group of younger dinosaurs gathering around him, including a friendly-looking spiketail, and the smallest, cutest little swimmer he had ever seen. More friends of Littlefoot no doubt.

He watched his new friend Littlefoot as he talked to the elders, almost as an equal. To heck with his grandfather, HE'S the one with all the political influence!

Suddenly, his attention was drawn to a smell lingering on the air. Lifting his head, he sniffed the air "Wait! There's.... *sniff* there's another sharptooth nearby. I can smell 'im. But it's faint... No wait..*sniff*, it's pretty close, it's just really small....*sniff* Another friend of yours, Littlefoot?"

Pterano · **Reply #161 on:** July 22, 2011, 09:57:55 AM

((Heheh... saying that LIttlefoot has all the political clout... that's... epic. XD))

Pterano seemed to brighten a little as his sister mentioned that she couldn't outright think of anything else that could be dragged up. Harper flew over as well, offering some more encouragement. "Well... you're right. Now that I've reached such a low point, I suppose the only place to go from here is up." He said with a nod.

"I have learned from my mistakes... and yes, I did tell you that earlier. I only hope I can prove it." he said, clenching a hand into a fist in a determined manner. "I am going to try, as hard as I can. Thank you for your kind words... at least not everyone here despises me... my family included." he said, spreading his arms to try and engulf his sister, Devon, Petrie, and Harper as best he could.

He became a bit more serious upon noting the Rainbow Faces stepping forward however. "THEY'RE back?" he asked, blinking. "What could they possibly want? Their story about the Stone of Cold Fire was what sent me searching in the first place." he said.

The Rainbow Faces were nodding in Redback's direction as he returned their greeting. The female then looked over at Topsy, who was in disbelief that he could be seeing them. "If you're lucky, you'll hardly know that we're here. We have some business to attend to... and we're TRYING to go about it as quietly as possible... but unfortunately not everyone in our ranks has the same viewpoint that we do." she said mysteriously.

The male nodded, frowning in a bit of a sad manner, and looked over at Mr. Threehorn. "So, you probably won't be hearing much from us, but, all the same, we feel the sharptooth here will make a fine addition to your community."

Littlefoot, despite barely having spent any time with the Rainbow Faces, trusted them for the aid they had given him and the gang, and thus if they endorsed Redback, it was just another confirmation that he was OK.

The longneck turned to face the sniffing sharptooth however, and suddenly, Littlefoot tensed up. "Another sharptooth?" he asked, but then calmed as Redback stated it seemed small. "Small? It has to be Chomper! He's a friend of mine! Can you tell which direction it's coming from?" he asked, looking around him now, but smelling nothing of course. If Chomper was here... was he coming over? Or was he just... lingering?

Mama's Girl · **Reply #162 on:** July 22, 2011, 11:33:41 AM

Pterano's sister gave a small smile at the determination in her brother's voice, but a good sort of determination this time. "Well, I know what happens when you set your mind to something so I've no doubt you will" she answered as he promised yet again to do good. Now that she knew of Norton as well, she really did hope he meant it this time for more than just his own or even a bit of their sakes.

At the Rainbow Faces words, Ridge frowned, trying to understand them. "Don't have the same viewpoint? Like they're trying to stop whatever you're trying to do?" he wondered.

A nearby spiketail, not affiliated with the young one's herd, but rather one of the far walkers who nonetheless felt he should help a young one of his own kind, sighed, "Don't try to figure them out kid, they speak gibberish on a good day" he sighed.

"Well if it is Chomper, why would he hide?" Cera threw out her opinion on what Littlefoot said, not fully understanding sharptooth politics herself or how they didn't all get along and young sharpteeth had to avoid bigger ones.

"Maybe Redback being bigger is just scaring him" Ducky said, "if we find out where he is we should try to tell him how nice Redback is, we should".

Allicloud · **Reply #163 on:** July 22, 2011, 01:03:35 PM

Winking at Ducky, Redback smiled and continued sniffing the air "Well, let's go find him. You guys comin'?"

He sniffed until he found a definite direction of the smell. His nose leading the way, he and Tero began to follow the smell.

vonboy · **Reply #164 on:** July 22, 2011, 01:50:05 PM

"Humpth! I Hope you DO keep it quiet!" Mr. Threehorn snorted back. "I didn't appreciate you two spreading those...ideas of yours the last time you were here!"

Ruby and Chomper kept waiting in the nearby bush. "Looks like the meeting is over now" Ruby commented. "Some of the adults are starting to leave, so they must be finished with whatever they were doing."

"That's great! We can com out soon!" Chomper said.

"Wait a second. That sharpteeth and the rest of the gang...they're coming our way!"

"OH no! That sharptooth must have caught my scent! Wha...what are we going to do!?"

Ruby sat back and thought for a brief moment. It had to be brief, because that sharptooth was coming up on them fast!"

"It'd look pretty bad if they found us hiding, so we should just come out into the open, so they won't think we're hiding!"

"Okay, Ruby, if you say so..."

Chomper and Ruby made their way out of the bush, and started casually walking towards the meeting. Chomper's body tensed up when they drew near the searching party. He wasn't sure how he was going to explain himself out of it this time!

Allicloud · **Reply #165 on:** July 22, 2011, 05:32:23 PM

Redback spotted the sharptooth approaching his small party. He waved a claw as he watched the tiny sharptooth coming closer, accompanied by a young fast-runner, somewhere between his age and the age of Littlefoot.

"Ah there you are! I knew I smelled sharptooth."

As he neared the sharptooth, he was slightly struck by how small Chomper was. He barely came up to Redback's knee! Redback grinned and muttered from the side of his mouth to Tero "Would you believe I was that small once?"

vonboy · **Reply #166 on:** July 22, 2011, 05:36:18 PM

"Um, hello. So your a nice sharptooth too?" Chomper asked. "Sorry. It's just, it's so weird seeing someone else like me. Most sharpteeth are really mean, even to other sharpteeth!"

"It's nice to meet you, Mr. Sharptooth! Hmm, what is your name?" Ruby asked.

Allicloud · **Reply #167 on:** July 22, 2011, 05:44:14 PM

Redback grinned what he hoped was a friendly smile down at Chomper. "Heh, don't worry. I'm friendly enough."

He turned his grin to the fast biter "Hi there. Redback's the name. Oh and this flyer here is Tero."

Tero gave no greeting, or even a friendly gesture, but he blinked, perhaps in recognition.

The sharptooth simply rolled his eyes, and returned his attention to the pair before him "And I assume that yer name is Chomper then? And who might you be, little missy?"

vonboy · **Reply #168 on:** July 22, 2011, 06:05:37 PM

"Yeah, my name is Chomper, the Friendly Sharptooth!" Chomper kind of lowered his head after he said this though. He thought about the things he had started to do.

"And my name is Ruby! I'm living here looking after Chomper."

LBTDiclonius · **Reply #169 on:** July 22, 2011, 07:06:44 PM

Spike had just sat there, not sure what to do as he rolled with the events that occured recently. From Cera's outburst to this new Sharptooth and Flyer, he had stayed silent. Of course, this was natural. No one really expected him to say anything at all, for he hadn't said anything in mostly all of their adventures, games, etc...but he had been quietly observing it. For once, he was kind of glad Pterano was back in the Valley. Petrie was happy to see him, of course, but, Cera...not so much. He could understand why she felt that way, he had never had an original family to begin with. All he knew were Ducky's family, and to him, that was good enough. He also stayed quiet when Chomper was intorducing himself to Redback and Tero. That was mostly because he was wondering where they could've gone. Were they out somewhere up until this particular point? Spike shrugged it off and put it in the back of his mind for now. He decided he would find out soon enough.

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Cira berated herself over and over again for letting that Sharptooth get away from her. And he didn't even answer one simple question!

"Grr! When I find him I'm gonna...wait...did they just go into the valley?" Cira wondered mentally. She assumed they did, after all, they had just dissapeared from sight all of a sudden. Sighing, she was about to walk away when she realized that if she gathered enough of her memory and tried to find out where they went, then she could get into the valley herself. Or, there was the good old fashioned way which was to use her sniffer.

She lowered her head slightly and took a breath in; they definately went this way. Grinning to herself, she started to follow the trail.

((ACK!!!! I'm BEHIND!!!!! Sorry guys.

))

Pterano · **Reply #170 on:** July 22, 2011, 07:19:07 PM

Littlefoot started following after Redback, now certain that the sharptooth had sniffed out Chomper. Sure enough, he could see Chomper and Ruby emerging from some cover and starting to walk right for them. "Chomper!" he exclaimed happily, running up to greet him, but letting Redback get his introductions out of the way first.

The two sharpteeth exchanged greetings, while behind them, the Rainbow Faces nodded at Mr. Threehorn. "Don't worry." the female was saying. "We'll try and stay low key. Oh and about the story... I'd say it wasn't all bad." she said. The two of them turned, and began slowly making their way in the gang's direction, though they were in no real hurry. It wasn't clear if they were going to greet the gang, or just walking that way for the moment.

Grandpa Longneck looked down at Topsy. "So... are the um... issues you wanted to discuss out of the way?" he asked. "Can we adjourn this meeting?"

Littlefoot was able to speak up, now that Chomper and Redback had greeted each other. "Say... Chomper, were have you BEEN? You aren't normally this late in meeting up with us. Did something happen?" the young longneck inquired.

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Pterano, meanwhile, was flexing his wings a little. "Well... I'm all for returning to the nest... and maybe going for a bit of a flight. I feel like stretching my wings and just... getting around for awhile. Shall we return to your abode, then?" he asked his sister, smiling down at her.

vonboy · **Reply #171 on:** July 22, 2011, 09:35:31 PM

Mr Threehorn looked around for a bit, recollecting his thoughts. "Yes, I suppose that will be all."

Further away from the meeting, Littlefoot had just asked Chomper a hard question. Chomprr had not even looked at Littlefoot directly at that point yet. When he turned to face him, he suddenly got a little queasy in his stomach, remembering what he had just had for break breast that morning. He decided to just look away from Littlefoot for now.

"Well I...uh...um...We were..."

Ruby broke in. "What Chomper was trying to say was we were out on a trip so I could go see my family!"

Mama's Girl · **Reply #172 on:** July 23, 2011, 01:06:45 AM

While Cera sort of followed the others over, she sat back after being close enough to not miss anything but far enough to not be close to Redback.

Ducky followed right along beside Redback as they walked over, keeping her gaze on the bushes trying to see Chomper and tell him it was ok if she did. Both him and Ruby walked out on their own though and while Ducky smiled in her own greeting she didn't mainly just listened in interest as Redback introduced himself and then Littlefoot asked where Chomper had been. It had been odd of him to be gone, the little swimmer realized. She bought Ruby's jumping in to Chomper's defense though, "Oh, well that sounds like it was very nice for you Ruby" she said with a smile.

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At Pterano's words, his sister looked shocked again, "The kids!" she sighed, "Oh I didn't think how they'd be left alone in all this, oh I hope they haven’t gotten into anything" she said. In the center of the Great Valley she wasn't so much worried over their safety, especially in such numbers, but more random mischief and such.

"Can I be trusted to stay here with Ridge a bit more, I don't want to run out on him just yet" Harper said.

"Of course, that's different" her mother said before flapping up. Harper would have asked her what exactly she meant by that, but she didn't get the chance.

She just shrugged, "Ok, well what now?" she turned to Ridge. Her friend thought over this.

Allicloud · **Reply #173 on:** July 23, 2011, 01:13:17 PM

Redback looked around himself. The Valley seemed like a nice enough place to live, even if hardly anybody trusted him.

"So, ah, what do you guys do for fun round here?"

Pterano · **Reply #174 on:** July 23, 2011, 05:56:29 PM

"Ah, so you were visiting your family, Ruby?" Littlefoot asked, suddenly not feeling as worried now. "OK... well that must have been fun. I guess it was last minute, as we didn't see you this morning, and it was starting to worry us." the longneck said, smiling now.

"Hah, what do we do for fun? We play lots of types of games. I'm sure you played games out in the Mysterious Beyond, eh?" he asked, looking over at Redback. "In fact, now that the meeting has broken up, maybe we could..." he trailed off as he noticed the approaching Rainbow Faces. "Oh, hello!" he greeted them, and they nodded in reply.

"Hello, Littlefoot." the male said. "Hello everyone." he waved to the others.

"What are you guys doing back here?"

"Simply looking for something." the male continued, not elaborating.

"Well... I don't think you've met Chomper yet, the friendly sharptooth, as he calls himself." Littlefoot introduced. "He's a really good friend of mine, and his guardian is next to him, Ruby."

"It's nice to meet you, Chomper." the female said.

"This newest addition is Redback, and we were thinking of showing him around the valley, soon."

"Yes, we didn't see these three before." the female stated.

"Nice to meet all of you." the male quipped. "Whereabouts in the Mysterious Beyond are you from, Redback? Did you have a home, or do you wander?"

Littlefoot turned to Ruby as this conversation was going on, and asked her in a lower voice so as not to interrupt the others, "So, how were your parents?"

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Pterano took to the air as well. "Goodbye, Ridge. Farewell, Harper. I shall see you later today, I am sure." the flyer bid his niece and her friend goodbye, and began following his sister back to the nest. He mostly flew in silence, as he couldn't think of anything direct to say, but knew he would at least have the support of his family to count on, as well as Devon. Devon was quite an important factor in this, and he wanted to make sure the flyer would be by his side for the duration of his stay here in the valley, if he could help it. He had to start better for everyone's sake.

As they neared the nest, he gasped a little, eyes going wide as he caught sight of a particular flyer perched on the rocks above his sister's nest. "That's... that's her!" he stammered, almost whispering as he pointed her to out to his sister.

The mysterious female noticed the two of them approaching, spread her wings and hopped off into the air, beginning to soar away again without giving them a look behind her.

trulyfantasticme · **Reply #175 on:** July 23, 2011, 06:07:28 PM

"What is it, Dad?" Devon asked as he tried to look where his father was looking. But he just couldn't put an eye on it. As for Petrie, he just went along with his mother, watching as Pterano and Devon headed off.

(I hope I got it right...

)

vonboy · **Reply #176 on:** July 23, 2011, 06:28:16 PM

"Nice to meet both of you!" Ruby said to the two rainbowfaces. "I don't believe I've ever seen rainbowfaces before. Hmm, are your kind like us fast-runners?"

"You look really good! Uh, I mean nice, yeah." Chomper fumbled on his words.

"Oh, uh" Ruby said when Littlefoot asked her, almost startled. "They're...just fine. Yes, they say that life out there in the Mysterious Beyond has been fine lately. No sharpteeth attacks in awhile."

Chomper suddenly burped, letting out the smell of the longneck he ate that morning. Of course, only another sharptooth would be able to smell it.

Mama's Girl · **Reply #177 on:** July 23, 2011, 08:57:41 PM

Ridge nodded to Harper's uncle, still sort of impressed by what he saw on his side and also with Littlefoot and the others that Pterano put so much effort into also knowing and remembering his niece and nephew's friends. As the Rainbow Faces walked over to talk to Littlefoot, the spiketail suddenly had an idea of "what to do now", as Harper has asked.

"Actually" he whispered to her, "I'm still very interested in them, so how about we go spying" he offered with a smile to show he was kidding and didn't mean they'd actually be up to sneaking or spying. Harper giggled, getting the joke. "Ok".

Harper flew over as Ridge walked over in a way that wouldn't interrupt what the others were doing. This put them about where Cera was still sitting. She glanced over from the corner of her eye. "What do you two want?" she asked. Harper had a feeling her being there might have been part of the threehorn's problem, since she was a slight reminder of Pterano but not Petrie and so thus Cera could yell at her and not feel bad.

"We're just keeping our eyes on the Rainbow Faces, they seem...interesting" Ridge said.

"Well take it from my dad, they don't know what they're talking about" Cera informed the two of them. There was a pause. "Did...Petrie leave?" the threehorn next asked Harper. While being surprised at her being addressed, Harper nonetheless nodded. Cera sighed, "Well I'm sure he already knows I wasn't ever mad at him or anything...".

"Yeah" Harper smiled, "he knows". She had no proof of this, but was just trying to be supportive. She thought it probably worked since Cera smiled a bit. Harper turned back to look at Ridge who was still just staring at the Rainbow Faces backs. "Are you going to go say hi or keep staring at them?" she asked.

"In a bit" Ridge said, which Harper figured was an answer to the question that he would go say hi 'in a bit'.

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Pterano's sister had all but forgotten about the mysterious blue flyer that started her searching about in the first place. She peered as the flyer flew off now. "Ok, if you're right and did see her yesterday, by the way no one knows who she is" she threw out her findings, mainly none, on the flyer, "...then why is she hanging about my nest. I find it a bit unsettling!" she suddenly flapped forward, not to confront the flyer but check the kids, who were all fine and hadn't even noticed the guest.

LBTDiclonius · **Reply #178 on:** July 24, 2011, 03:32:31 AM

Spike glanced at Harper and Ridge, but didn't acknowledge them, since Cera was alwaready doing a fine job at it. Although, he did notice Chomper's burp, but he dismissed that, seeing as he could just have access air in his stomach that needed to come out, and it was just natural anways. He turned his attention back on the Rainbowfaces, who were currently talking to Redback about wherever he came from.

Allicloud · **Reply #179 on:** July 24, 2011, 07:47:38 AM

Redback raised his head as he suddenly caught a whiff of Chomper's burp. No mistaking it, that was Longneck. He grinned slightly, amused that he still has his carnivorous moments. The sharptooth himself was more a fan of fish, but he did have his meateating moments.

He thought for a moment about the Rainbowfaces' question. "Well...I guess being a wanderer is the best description. me and Tero used to have a bunch of other friends we'd travel with. Mostly young ones around the same age as us..."

He paused for a moment, and held his arm up and gazed at the black grass that hung from his whole body. Sighing gently, he continued
"...But well...stuff happened, long story short, Tero and I stuck together and travelled on."