The Consequences
#23 of Out of the Shadows: AnthroLover's Version
Part 23 is up.
"I knew that sharptooth couldn't be trusted!" Pterano snarled as he banked to the left to avoid a diving sharptooth. The sharptooth clashed against the walls. It was dazed for a few secods, but was instantly back on its feet and took off again. Pterano gulped. "Oh wonderful... Flying into walls doesn't work..."
"Neither does clashing two together!" Teri shouted as she flew by. She was quickly hounded by two sharptooth flyers.
Pterano was so shocked by what he just saw that he forgot to look where he was going. When he finally realized his eyes weren't on the road, it was too late. He smacked right into a wall!
"Ooooo..." He moaned as he slid down the side of a mountain wall. He shook his head to regain his stability, just as a shadow loomed over him. He opened his eyes and saw rows of huge sharp teeth. Screaming, he backed away, only to be pressing up against a wall.
He tried to get up, but screamed when he opened his wing span. Searing pain went through his body and he fell back down. He cursed to himself. He must've broken something when he crashed into the wall. He couldn't fly!
The huge teeth belonged to a bellydragger. More specifically, they belonged to Dil. Perched on her head was Ichy, who was licking his beak. He hopped onto Dil's nose as the crocodile snarled and blew air from her nose.
Ichy pointed at the cornered flyer. "I wanted to have a meal with that Petrie guy..." At this, Pterano glared hatefully at the sharpbeak. Ichy responded with an arrogant grin. "But you'll do... Sic 'im Dil!"
Dil answered, "With pleasure, Ichy." She opened up her huge mouth, drool dripping from her remaining sharp teeth. As she lunged forward, all Pterano could do was stare...and scream.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The scream echoed against the mountain walls.
Petrie, who was dodging aerial attacks, heard his uncle's screams. "Uncle Pterano!" He banked to the right and flew to in the direction of the scream.
Hyp grabbed the tail of a sickleclaw and tossed it around in a circle. He let go, and the creature flew headfirst into a wall. But somehow, it managed to get back on its feet and still attack. "How is that possible?" He asked in horror.
Mutt dodged an attack from another sickleclaw. "I don't know, Hyp!"
Nod said, "It's like they're not from this world..." He used his tail to knock away Loc, who was trying to attack him from behind.
Loc landed on his back and moaned. "Stupid leaf-eater..." He grumbled, and struggled back onto his feet. Without even shrugging himself off, he charged after Nod again.
Nod braced himself. Loc glared, and opened his mouth. The plant eater braced for an attack, but it didn't come. Confused, Nod lowered his tail and eyed the sharptooth with curiousity.
Loc smiled. "Fool..."
He lunged forward and sank his teeth into Nod's head. The shieldback screamed in agony as he felt his head being crushed. He could feel his jaw and cranium crack under the pressure of the sharptooth's jaws around him. He could feel the bone surrounding his brain cavity start to cave in, and then all of a sudden, he went limp. His head had been crushed. Blood oozed everywhere.
"Nod! No!" Mutt yelled. He rushed towards Loc and formed a fist. He pulled it back and connected it to the sharptooth's jaw. The sharaptooth howled in pain as he was thrown back about a foot into the ground and onto his back. He looked at the angry two-legged leaf-eater, eyes red with hatred.
Loc wiped his jaw and sniffed it. A trinkle of blood was flowing from his mouth. It was only a little cut. A minor set back is all it was. He laughed.
"Why are you laughing!" Mutt demanded, tears of sadness and anger appearing in his eyes. "You murdered my friend!"
"Yeah?" Loc said, as if it was no big deal. "What'cha gonna do about it, punk? Kill me?"
Completely ignoring the fact that the sharptooth could speak to him in his own language, Mutt answered the question, "Yes!"
"Well, bring it on..." He motioned for Mutt to come and get him. "I'd love to see you try and kill me."
With fire in his eyes, Mutt ran forward, bracing himself for fighting. Loc braced himself as well, for impact. As the large leaf-eater made contact with him, the force was enough to cause them to roll away from Hyp, who was still fighting the sickleclaws. Mutt and Loc rolled away and landed about a mile away from where they originally wear.
Mutt opened his eyes. He was horrified to see that he was on the bottom. He looked up and saw Loc's mouth opened. He whimpered as he saw the sharp teeth, coming slowly in his direction.
"It was not a smart idea to mess with me, punk." Loc said as he closed his jaws around Mutt's throat. Without even letting him utter a scream, he ripped out Mutt's windpipe with one swift movement. All motion ceased in the young plant-eater's body. Blood spread all around the two, creating a large pool of red liquid.
Hyp suddenly realized he was alone. But he was too busy to even say anything about it. The sickleclaws kept on coming. They hissed and growled. Hyp felt a shudder as he thought he would understand what they were saying...
"Tear him open!"
"Rip out his guts!"
"Strike him in the throat!"
Hyp shook a little, and strike a sickleclaw that lunged at him.
That was when he found himself faced with another sickleclaw, a light-green one with olive-green strips and turquoise-blue eyes. It was Sylvia. She growled at him, but only for one second, then her eyes widened, along with Hyp's. For one moment both the sharptooth and the leaf-eater could have the same sensations: heart thundering in the chest, hands sweating, knees weak, they both keep there just staring at one another, with that strange felling in their stomachs. Both of them wondering what on the world was happening to them.
Suddenly Hyp was knocked down by something from behind. He turned his head and saw a pale yellow black-striped sickleclaw. It was Blueye.
The raptor stared at him hungrily, her blue eyes with a speck of red in the center. She hissed something, and smiled twistedly. Hyp suddenly found himself covered with a pile of the raptors, slashing and cutting him. He screamed for help, but his words were silenced when one raptor, Jade, diced her claw into his neck.
Hyp's eyes widened as he felt the sickleclaw puncture his windpipe and vital blood vessels. Blood quickly flooded from his neck, drenching the grass around him. His vision was becoming blurry. He frantically waved his hands, when it suddenly grabbed a clawed hand, but he only hold it for a second, because he almost immeditaly let go as he felt like a sudden electric bold had gone trough his hand. The last thing he saw before he blacked out was Blueye's smiling face. Then he, too, stopped moving.
Meanwhile, Littlefoot and Ali were fighting off a pack of larger sharpteeth. The attack had come so suddenly. Littlefoot didn't even have time to leave the valley with his troops. The sharpteeth just appeared out of nowhere.
"There's so many!" Ali shouted, knocking down a yellow sharptooth.
"I know! I don't know where they're all coming from!" He knocked down another yellow sharptooth. "I mean, I knew there were a lot from Fortress Valley, but I didn't think they'd come this fast!"
Ali struck another sharptooth. "Yeah, and it seems like nothing can stop their advance!"
Teri flew overhead, and quickly shouted, "We've lost Hyp, Nod, and Mutt!"
Littlefoot. "No..." He shook his head. He turned to Ali. "We have to get out of there!"
Ali looked shocked. "But...what about..."
"We'll find survivors, and find a safe place to hide!" He looked around, seeing sharptooth almost flood certain parts of the valley. "There's too many meat eaters there, Ali. We have to go!"
"All right..." She reluctantly agreed.
Petrie searched for the source of the voice. He suddenly spotted two familiar figures. He glared angrily. It was Ichy and Dil. He would recognize them anywhere! Forgetting all fear, he swooped down and hovered in front of the two meat eaters. They seemed shocked at first, but relaxed as they realized it was only Petrie.
"What do you want, little one?" Ichy growled.
"What you do to Uncle Pterano?" He demanded.
Ichy chuckled. "Let's just say we had a very...interesting meeting."
"And...quite tasty." Dil licked her chops.
As horror and realization kicked on, Petrie felt rage cloud his mind. "You...You...MONSTERS!" He forgot all rational thought and he dove in to attack.
Ichy, unfazed, took into flight. "You wanna mess with me, kid?"
"You eat my uncle! Now you pay!"
Ichy smiled. "Bring it on..."
As the battle in the Great Valley went on, a large longneck was bolting towards the valley as fast as he could go. "Don't worry, Littlefoot. I'm coming!" Doc thought as he could finally see the valley in the distance. "I just hope I'm not too late..."