Escape
#14 of Out of the Shadows: AnthroLover's Version
Part 14 for all readers.
"That's all I am going to tell you." Chomper said simply, smiling devilishly. "You don't need to know anything else."
As Chomper finished his story, Littlefoot, Ali, Petrie, and Rex were in shock. They had listened carefully to the sharptooth's every word. Rex wasn't around when they had brought the egg in, and neither was Ali. But Petrie and Littlefoot both remembered very well what had happened. It may have been a few years, but they remembered everything like it was yesterday.
"Chomper, listen..it wasn't our fault that you..."
"Shut up!" Chomper barked maliciously. "I'm sick of your lies!"
Petrie flew up and hovered above the longnecks. "But we no lied to you, Chomper." He received a look of hatred from the sharptooth. Then Chomper revealed all of his teeth in a vicious smile. Petrie yelped and flew behind Littlefoot's head. "Why you so mean and scary now?"
The sharpbeak finally spoke after a long moment of silence listening to Chomper's story. "Oh come on, he already told..." Suddenly a large blue foot stepped in front of him. The startled sharpbeak and bellydragger gulped and pulled back. Chomper lowered his head, and eyed them with an angry look.
"I...answer the questions around here." His hissing voice sounded like nothing they ever heard before. It was so menacing that even the cold-hearted Dil couldn't stand hearing the sound. Chomper pushed his head forward so that his snout was touching Dil's. "Understand me?"
Although she couldn't see him that well, Dil knew very well that Chomper was right in her face. "Y-Y-Yes boss." She whimpered, backing away slowly. "We understand."
Ichy nodded his head and smiled nervously. "Y-Yeah. It won't happen again. We promise!" He closed his eyes and lowered his head as Dil continued backing away.
The sharptooth smiled. "Good." He turned around to face Littlefoot. Littlefoot shuddered as the blue sharptooth looked at him that way. Why, not too long ago, Chomper used to look at Littlefoot with eyes full of happiness, loyalty and trust. Now all that he could see in there was emptiness, hatred, and betrayal. "Before my dad...my real dad...died, I promised him I would make him proud. I would kill you and avenge him!"
Littlefoot couldn't believe what he was hearing. But it wasn't just the killing thing he was confused about. "He died...?"
Chomper growled softly. "Yes. He died a few weeks ago." He closed his eyes. "He died from a..." He shook his head. "Wait? Why am I telling you this?" He took a step forward. "It was your fault it happened! Your fault!" He suddenly charged forward. He opened his mouth wide and snapped forward. Littlefoot reacted fast and used his tail to knock Chomper to the ground.
"That's not true!" Littlefoot pinned Chomper to the ground. He lowered his head and bared his teeth as he glared at the sharptooth who was once his friend. "How was I responsible!"
Chomper glared hatefully, and said, "You should know...You were there." Chomper then used his large feet to kick the longneck in the stomach. Littlefoot fell to his side. He looked up. Chomper raised his foot and kicked him again! This time it was in the ribs. Littlefoot cried out as he rolled onto his back, exposing his underbelly. Chomper laughed as he saw his chance and dove in to attack.
"No!" Chomper was knocked aside by something. Littlefoot looked in horror as Rex staggered back to his feet. Chomper opened his eyes after he had hit the ground, and snarled.
"Rex, no. You're hurt." Littlefoot walked over to his omnivorous friend. The winged dinosaur smiled at Littlefoot.
"It's...all right. I'm...fine." He spoke too soon. A wave of pain gripped his mind, and he almost lost his balance. Littlefoot walked up to him and let him lean on his body. "Thanks..."
"No problem." Littlefoot smiled, but the smile faded quickly and he turned his attention back towards Chomper. The blue sharptooth was back on his feet and stalking towards his direction. "We didn't do anything to you." He said as a final attempt to make Chomper believe him. He knew it was futile.
"I don't believe you..." Before the horned sharptooth could attack, Ali stepped forward. "So you're going to fight me? Fine!" He charged forward, but the female longneck was unfazed this time. She only snarled and charged forward herself.
Littlefoot could only stare in shock as Ali and Chomper dashed for each other. Even Ichy and Dil were surprised by the longneck's bravery. Ali reared on her hind legs and stomped down. The ground shook with incredible force! Chomper could barely stand up. As soon as he reached her he head-butted her. His sharp horns only scratched her skin as she maneuvered quickly to avoid their deadly collision. She used her tail to trip him. While the sharptooth was still on the ground, she reared up again to stomp down on him. "This is for my family!" She felt gravity do its job and pull her back towards the ground.
She thought she had him this time, but suddenly Chomper brought his head to her underside. Caught completely off guard, Ali screamed as the horns slashed her in the chest. They didn't go in deep, only scratching the surface. Blood started to leak out. A puddle of blood started to form.
"Ali!" Littlefoot shouted as the female longneck struggled to stand up on her feet. Littlefoot started to charge forward when Chomper shifted his blood-red eyes towards him. Something about that look stopped him in his tracks.
"Try anything..." He stepped closer to Ali. "...and I'll kill her."
Ali glared at Chomper. "You..."
Chomper smiled at her. "You seemed to be an intelligent young dinosaur." He chuckled. "Too bad it's going to be wasted when you die!"
He was about to attack when something else charged through the cave opening. The act was so fast that no one could tell who had just came in. Suddenly something struck Chomper in the side. He cried out in pain as he felt four spikes penetrate his side. He fell to the ground.
"Spike!" Littlefoot cried out. "How did you get here?"
Spike looked at him. "Messa no can explain. You run, now!"
Chomper was getting on his feet. Littlefoot hesitated. "But...you..."
Spike smiled. "No worry, friend. Just go!" He glared at the sharptooth. "Messa take care of bad guy." He kicked up dirt as he charged forward. Chomper roared as he tried to tackle the spiketail. Spike struck him in the face with his mighty tail. He was about to strike again when Chomper bit into one of his bony plates. His bite strength allowed him to crack the plate, and his teeth sunk in.
Luckily for Spike, this didn't hurt him. He tried to buck the sharptooth off of him, but it was no use. As he continued doing so, his tail accidentally struck the wall. The fragile sharp tooth-shaped rocks fell down in hundreds.
"Run!" Littlefoot shouted. He, Rex, Petrie, and Ali ran outside. They could hear the crashing sounds of the rocks, and dust flew into the air. They coughed and wheezed as the rocks continued to fall. The ground started to shake, and the teens fell down, except Petrie who remained airborne. But even though he was in the air, he could still feel the ground shaking as though he was on the ground himself.
Finally the rocks stopping falling. Littlefoot and the others looked at the cave entrance. The opening was still there, but the pile of sharply edged rocks piled up, almost barracading them out. There was only one opening, and it looked about the same size as Petrie. The loud sound was gone completely, replaced with an eerie silence.
"Spike...?" Petrie whispered, but no one responded. The group closed their eyes in dismay.
"We found you!" The group whirled around to see three figures running towards them. They were identified as Mr. Threehorn, Ducky, and Tria.
"What are you guys doing here?" Littlefoot asked a bit quietly.
Mr. Threehorn was the first to answer. "Why, looking for you of course. Where have you been?"
Littlefoot glared at him. "Where does it look like?" He gestured towards the cave.
Ducky coughed. "Where's Spike? He ran out ahead."
Rex closed his eyes and shook his head. "He's...in there." He turned his head and looked at the cave. Ducky looked to see that rocks had fallen from the ceiling, and there was no way in. She could feel tears filling her eyes already, even though they weren't sure Spike was dead.
"No..." She whispered. "No..."
Tria closed her eyes. "He sacrificed himself...to save you?" The response given to her was a single nod from the four friends who were once held captive by Chomper.
Littlefoot suddenly remembered something. He lowered his head and gently nudged Ducky. She opened her misty eyes. "Ducky...? We figured out why the sharptooth knew our names."
"Oh...?" She quietly said, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"Yes. It's...Chomper."
Ducky was just as shocked as Littlefoot was when he learned the truth. "What..? That can't be true...no no no..."
Petrie flew down. "It true, Ducky. It true."
"You're alive...?" Ducky couldn't register the happiness in her mind when Topsy stepped in.
"Chomper...? You know that sharptooth?"
Littlefoot and Petrie gulped as they stared into the threehorn's eyes. They were narrowed, almost angry. They knew they couldn't lie, not in front of the council leader. They knew this day would come. But they didn't know that when the day would come, the sharptooth would have turned on them. They knew they had to tell the truth.
"Yes..." Petrie answered.
Topsy narrowed his eyes a bit further. "How...?"
Littlefoot answered this time. "Remember when I was a kid, when two sharpteeth for the first time broke into the valley?"
The threehorn nodded. "What about it?"
"We met Chomper at that time..."
In an old lake that seemed with a polished mirror, with several spring-green crystals around sprouting of the ground. It had a light odor of minds. In the edge of it was a two-crest swimmer that was looking at her own reflection, very sad look in her eyes. Tears running down from her emerald-green eyes and landing in the water, creating distortions in the image casted. She was sobbing while the tears fell. She didn't noticed the smaller figure approaching her.
"Zera?"
The female two-crest swimmer turned around by hearing her name, and was now facing a smaller figure, a sickleclaw with amber-colored eyes. He had a very gentle look and his voice filed with authentic worry. "Are you alright?"
The bigger dino looked away "No Bayron. I'm not."
The sickleclaw only sighed and moved closer, to hug and comfort her. She rettributed the action by hugging him back. "I can't understand." She said between sobs "How could things come to this point? How could all those horrible things to happen? How can then be happening now and we just keep here watching? How could he become this monster?"
Bayron feel the weight of every question, especially the last one. "He chose his own path." He said containing his anger "If Chomper has chose to become this so it was because he wanted. We can't do anything about it."
"But he is her son." said a desperate Vera "Her son, Bayron. She was so... How could someone with her blood become this?"
This question hit Bayron really hard. He was still remembering her, and all that she did. It was almost impossible to believe that the monster know as Chomper was actually her son. If she could see what he had become, what he was doing now, she would die from grief. "I don't know Vera." he said without finding an better answer "I just don't know."