LittlefootAndAliTogether
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Post by LittlefootAndAliTogether on Mar 28, 2015 13:24:44 GMT 8
THE LAND BEFORE TIME XX: FLOWING FIRE DANGER
CHARACTERS
Littlefoot Male Apatosaurus (Longneck/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Cera Female Triceratops (Threehorn/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Ducky Female Saurolophus (Swimmer/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Petrie Male Pteranodon (Flyer/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Spike Male Stegosaurus ( ) Alignment: Good
Grandpa Longneck Male Apatosaurus (Longneck/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Grandma Longneck Female Apatosaurus (Longneck/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Topps Male Triceratops (Threehorn/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Tria Female Triceratops (Threehorn/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Tricia Female Triceratops (Threehorn/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Mama Flyer Female Pteranodon (Flyer/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Pterano Male Pteranodon (Flyer/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Mama Swimmer Female Saurlophus (Swimmer/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Papa Swimmer Male Saurolophus (Swimmer/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Tippy Male Tippy's Species (Spiketail/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Tippy's Mother Female Tippy's Species (Spiketail/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Spiketail Leader Male Spiketail Species (Spiketail/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Lisa (OC) Female Stegosaurus (Spiketail/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Stella (OC) Female Stegosaurus (Spiketail/Flattooth) Alignment: Good
Egg Stealer Leader (OC) Male Orthiomimus (Egg Stealer) Alignment: Bad
Egg Stealers (OCs) Mixed Orthiomimus and Struthiomimus (Egg Stealer) Alignment: Bad
Spike wandered with his older sister Ducky and his friends. She wasn't his real sister, for she was a Swimmer and he was a Spiketail. He had never met his family before, any of them. The first face he'd seen when hatching had been Ducky's. He always saw her as a sister. He regarded Ducky's family as his own. Still, sometimes, he lay awake at night, wondering if somewhere, out there, somebody was alive in his family.
Everyone in the group had some family. Littlefoot had his father, a foster brother Shorty and a foster sister Dayo, his third cousin Ali and her mother, and his grandparents. Petrie had his mother, all of his siblings, and his uncle Pterano. Ducky had all of her family, including her annoying aunt who sleep swam and blabbed a hundred miles a minute with gusts up to 300. Cera had her dad, Topps, who was stubborn and liked to argue, her older sister Olivia, her nephew and niece Dana and Dinah, her step mother Tria, and her step-sister Tricia. He himself had nobody. He was like Guido in that regard.
He was shy and didn't like to talk much. Still, he almost wanted to break his habit of not talking so that he could listen to the green food so that he could talk to Ducky. Her name had been his first word. His bond with her was very strong.
Spike went off to get green food. Eating always helped. He did it as a habit, a habit to hide his pain of having nobody. He'd eaten a lot as a kid, mainly as he liked it. He'd kept this up even into the Time of Great Growing as a coping mechanism for dealing with being, as he thought, the very last of his family. It bothered him. He wasn't one to envy others and so wasn't spiteful that his friends all had family and he didn't. Still, it bothered him.
Lately, he'd put on some weight, as he didn't just burn it off anymore now that he was older. Ducky had put him on an exercise program, and he'd lost weight, though the exercise was annoying as he had to keep going up and down the Great Wall. It had put off a lot of weight, but it still didn't help.
"Don't worry Spike. We will keep trying. We will. We will." she had said. He was afraid of that. Still, he needed some way to cope.
As night fell, he looked at a star. He hoped that somewhere, somehow, there would be someone that was a Spiketail that he could call family. As he went to bed, he wished that he could be like his sister and have someone as kin. He went off to sleep. His sleep rumbles annoyed his sister and she put leaves over her ears to drone out the sound.
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LittlefootAndAliTogether
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Post by LittlefootAndAliTogether on Apr 6, 2015 3:30:49 GMT 8
CHAPTER ONE: SPIKE AND DUCKY
Spike walked over to some green food and ate it. He kept going, even eating awful smelling plants. "Hey tubby, don't you ever stop eating?" came a taunting voice. A gaggle of Swimmers was staring at him and laughing. He decided to ignore them. "Your sister's diet isn't working very well tubby!" they continued.
Spike shook his head. Some dinosaurs could be very unkind. He continued to ignore them, eating yellow flowers now. "If a Sharptooth ever came across him, he'd not have to eat for over a week!" yelled one belligerent Swimmer.
Spike stared at his brother Derek. Derek was looking angrily at the Swimmers, but didn't want to get involved. He had decided to let Spike handle it on his own, as he could easily stand up to them due to his larger size and spikes on his tail.
However, his twin sister Ducky wasn't so convinced. She had had enough. Though Derek knew that she was normally gentle, in fact, more gentle than him, she had had enough. She threw a shell at one of the bullies, conking him right in the middle of the forehead and causing him to fall down and splash in water behind him.
"You have done that enough! You have! You have!" she said angrily. She then started to chase them away. She ran at two of the bullies, her arms outstretched, and knocked them into water with a strong force. The others scattered under her wrath. She came to Spike. Spike had earlier started to cry from the bullying, which had pushed her past the breaking point.
She glared at her twin brother Derek. "You were no help. Oh no, no, no." she said, glaring at him. The two twins were quite different. He was less adventurous and a good deal harder than his sister. He'd seen nasty things after the Great Earthshake too, including having thought for a week at least that she had died. He'd also thought that she must surely have perished in the Land of Mists and was very relieved to find that she had lived, though he had been most alarmed how narrowly she had escaped being eaten by Dil.
"You cannot always fight his battles Ducky." he said. He walked away.
"It is ok Spike. It is ok. They are gone. They are. They are." she said She stopped crying and went and hugged her. She really wished that he could have a family like hers. A true family with Spiketails.
She and Spike went to go find Littlefoot and the others in the Gang. Suddenly, the ground shook. A few trees fell. Ducky screamed. She held onto Spike, who had jumped as the ground had started to open under them. Luckily, he was able to get her to safety.
"Oh thank you Spike. Thank you!" she said. They kept running. The ground stopped opening. They narrowly avoided falling rocks from a rockslide. The Earthshake stopped. Everything was now eerily quiet.
Luckily, the worst of the damage appeared to be some bruises. "I'm glad everything is fine and we're all right. I'm glad it's all over." said Mama Swimmer to her hildren and Spike later that day after they had determined the extent of the damage at a Rock Circle meeting.
"That was scary." said Littlefoot.
"Yes, but it is gone now. It is. It is." said Ducky reassuringly. But it was to only be the beginning!
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Post by LittlefootAndAliTogether on Apr 6, 2015 3:31:51 GMT 8
CHAPTER TWO: STELLA
"Ducky, why do you keep sticking up for him? He's got to fight his own battles someday. You can't shelter him forever." said Derrick.
Ducky said nothing. She felt that it was true. Yet she didn't to think about Spike being bullied and her not around to help him. She'd fight a Sharptooth to save him if she had to.
"You are not nice Derrick. Spike does not like you." said Ducky. She and her twin brother did not get along very well. In fact, one day she had said that she'd rather have a Fast Biter as a brother than him. Spike shook his head at Ducky. "Well, he is nice, for which you should feel glad that he is not upset that you did not help him. You should be glad for that. Yep, yep, yep, you should." she said to her twin brother.
"I wish you and your twin brother wouldn't fight Ducky. It's so not like you." said Cera.
"You and Tricia fighted last week." said Ducky.
"It was just some friendly horn-butting." said Cera innocently.
"You should feel lucky that you have a brother Ducky. I have none." Littlefoot reminded her.
"I'd rather have a Swimming Sharptooth as a brother." said Ducky, glaring angrily at Derrick. She and her twin brother resumed arguing. Littlefoot sighed.
Spike got bored with the arguing, which he really hated anyway, and started eating again. He belched. He happened to be near Derrick when he did this. "Oops." he said.
"You are nasty! Watch where you burp tubby!" said Derrick angrily.
WHAM! SPLASH! Ducky rammed him and he fell into water. She grabbed him and started splashing water in his face. "Take it back!" she snapped angrily.
"Ducky, what is this?!" he said angrily.
"You insulted Spike! You did! You did! I said to take it back!" she growled. She pummeled him.
"Ducky, stop!" came their mother's voice.
The two stopped fighting. Ducky paused, her fist raised. They were both really wet from all the splashing. "Apologize to your brother now!" demanded Mama Swimmer.
"I am sorry that you are a creep Derrick. I am. I am." said Ducky angrily to Derrick.
"DUCKY!" said Mama Swimmer angrily.
"Kiss my tush Derrick!" said Ducky, shaking her hind end at her twin brother. He was her least favorite brother.
"That's enough Ducky!" said Papa Swimmer. Ducky got grounded for the rest of the day for her bad behavior. The others in the Gang were totally taken aback by her actions.
"Ducky's never done this before. I know she and Derrick don't get along too well, but this has never happened before." said Littlefoot.
"Perhaps we should try and see what is the matter." suggested Littlefoot.
"But she grounded. We get in trouble if we..." protested Petrie. Littlefoot ignored him.
"Ducky, what the matter?" asked Petrie.
"You should not be here. Oh no, no, no." whispered Ducky.
"Me want to know what bothering you?" he asked.
"Oh Petrie. We all have family. Even Littlefoot has some. Spike has nobody. It is not fair. Oh no, no, no!" said Ducky.
Just then, Tippy's herd was spotted coming into the Great Valley. Spike was glad to see his old friend back.
There were two new Spiketails with the group. One, an adult female and the other, a female of Spike's age. They were Stella and Lisa.
Stella looked at Spike. "I think I've seen you before, but I don't recall meeting you." she said thoughtfully.
Spike shook his head to show that he didn't recall meeting her before either. "You remind me of someone." she said.
Spike wasn't sure who he reminded her of. He went up to Lisa. "Hello, I'm Lisa." she said kindly.
"His name is Spike. He does not like to talk." said Ducky.
"That's ok." said Lisa.
They learned that Lisa had lost both of her parents to Sharpteeth and had gone with Tippy's herd.
Stella had bright pink eyes. Lisa, meanwhile, had cute turquoise colored eyes.
"Spike, did you get hurt in the Earthshake?" she asked him.
Spike shook his head. "You had the Earthshake too?" asked Ducky, curious.
"Yes, it might have been a different one. Several have been felt earlier today." said Stella.
"Now Spike, I'd like to spend more time with you. There is just something really familiar about you. You remind me of my brother Steg." she said.
"What was Steg like?" asked Ducky. It was lucky that Stella was more tolerant, as many herds didn't associate with other kinds. As it was, she was tolerant and hence talked to Ducky.
"He looked quite like Spike, only he had blue eyes. His wife had purple eyes though. Both of them died around the time of the Great Earthshake. Fought off Fast Biters. There was some kind of rockslide in the fight. No survivors. They had told me earlier that they had lost all but one egg to Egg Stealers. Nasty things. Spotted some around here lately." said Stella.
"What happened to the last one?" asked Ducky.
"It got taken. I'd have said that it was taken by Egg Stealers, except that there were footprints near the nest. I think my niece or nephew might still be alive. I just don't know where." said Stella.
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Post by LittlefootAndAliTogether on Apr 15, 2015 0:51:01 GMT 8
CHAPTER THREE: ORNI
Orni the Egg Stealer moved through the rain. She saw a nest. Other Egg Stealers had helped themselves to all the eggs in the nest, save one. She was hungry, kind of, and wanted it. She saw the mother Longneck but wanted the egg anyway. She reached out and grabbed the egg.
Suddenly, the mother Longneck attacked her with her tail. She was beaten. The egg went rolling and bouncing. Incredibly, the egg survived. Orni skulked off, angry and empty-handed. She watched as the egg hatched into a young Longneck. The mother Longneck's parents were with her. Where the father was, she didn't know. Perhaps he, like her own father, was a deadbeat who had left her at a young age for another female. She'd never forgiven her father for that and was quite cruel in her life because of that.
Orni skulked off. She had since formed a group of Egg Stealers who went in groups. Never was she going to let parents get the best of her again. The incident she had recalled had happened many cold times earlier. Now, she and her group of Egg Stealers sat licking yoke of their hands. Some parents had been distracted by the earthshake and she and her group had helped themselves to their nests.
Orni saw two of her group fighting over an egg. They were likely to attract attention, which she didn't want, as the parents might realize what had happened and come back for revenge. She came toward them, a tone of disgust in her voice and a look of disgust on her face. "Prisci! Otis! If you'd stop fooling around, then we can get out of here!" snapped Orni softly. They cowered under her rage. She wasn't the leader for nothing after all. "If they come after us and we get any trouble for it, I'm feeding you to the Sharpteeth!" she grumbled softly at them. Otis handed the egg to Prisci, figuring that, though he wanted the egg, it wasn't worth suffering Orni's wrath over.
Orni was still hungry, for she liked her protein. She snuck up to a Fast Biter nest. She jumped left as the Sharptooth started to sniff. She found some rocks and threw them away from her. The curious Sharptooth mother went off after them. Orni smirked. She came back with the eggs to her group. "Dinner." she said, as if this didn't bother her one bit, which it in fact didn't.
They were walking away, having eaten more eggs. Then they heard a snarl. The mother Sharptooth had come back, not finding anything but a rock in her search. Orni knew that she might find herself being a meal if she wasn't careful. But Orni was very great at dealing with Sharpteeth. She had had to deal with one at a very young age. Her own mother, unhinged by her mate's betrayal, had, realizing that her daughter might slow her down when the Gigantasaurus had appeared, taken off to save her own skin and that of her nearer children rather than risk her own life to save Orni.
Orni had thought that she was going to die that day, but she had, by the greatest of luck, fallen into a crevice. The angry and hungry Sharptooth, seeing what he thought was an easy meal, had decided to go for her instead of her bad mother and her siblings. The Sharptooth had snapped and snapped at the entrance, getting closer and closer. She had been so terrified that she had wet herself.
She often recalled how her mother had said that she was slow and would never amount to anything in life. Orni believed that her mother had believed that she was responsible for her father leaving her. She knew that that was nuts. She had known that her father was cheating and had told on him.
Her mother and father had had a big fight, which came to clawings and blows in parts of it. At last, her father had left. Her siblings, devastated, had started to blame her for it, as she had told and they reminded her that if she had kept her mouth shut, that their father would still be with them.
Her mother hadn't exactly gone and blamed her, but she was no longer kind to her and she knew that she too wanted someone to blame and had picked Orni for a scapegoat.
Orni had been in luck. The Sharptooth had reached rock that he couldn't get through just a short distance from her. He tried to reach into the hole to get her, but she was just out of his reach. After a few hours, he finally left.
Orni had come out, very scared and white, and also parentless and without a family. It seemed that a part of her had died that day indeed. The Sharptooth may not have eaten her physically, but the old Orni, whatever seemed nice in her, had gone away. Orni had decided to first get revenge on the Sharptooth.
She happened to find him and went to his nest. She waited till he and his mate were asleep and took his eggs. She now had to make it on her own. It seemed only fair to her.
Orni's thoughts returned to the present. Otis slipped. Claudius, another Egg Stealer, a Struthiomimus, said to her "Shouldn't we go and get him. He's part of our group?"
"No. It's everyone for themselves. That's how my mother left me." stated Orni without feeling. Claudius shook his head at the Ornithiomimus.
They left Otis behind. The others wondered if he had died, but Orni just kept urging them on. They were relieved to see Otis come a few minutes later. He was dripping sweat and very frightened, but still alive. "Ah, glad you've joined us again." said Orni, not mentioning one bit any relief that he was still alive. The group continued on.
They came near the Great Valley. Orni had heard the stories of this place. Big walls and a united group of Flatteeth. Still, this place would serve them well if they could get into there and get to eggs undetected. It would be much easier than in the Mysterious Beyond, provided that they didn't get caught.
She knew that the inhabitants primarily feared Sharpteeth. A Sharptooth, which would go after grownups, would attract attention to itself sooner or later. An Egg Stealer, which only went for eggs, could easily slip in unnoticed.
"We camp here for the night." she ordered her group in a stern and commanding voice. Nobody dared argue with her. She was hoping for an opportunity to get eggs from the Great Valley.
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