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"But how should I go about it...?" Chomper thought to himself. He needed some way to lure Rex away from the group. He couldn't just waltz up there. He would have to get Rex alone, but how to do that at a distance? Rex was a flyer, so he would go faster, and thus be seperated from the group easily if he just kept on flying. But knowing the dracovol, he probably slows down to wait for the others to catch up. And Chomper was smart enough to know also that the plant-eaters wouldn't stray too far from their hideout, so the horned sharptooth couldn't just sit here and wait. Unless Rex gets bold and goes much further out, it was doubtful he'd bump into him.

Chomper growled in frustration. He could almost feel his veins burst as he tried in vain to come up with a plan. Usually he's really good at plotting, but in this case, there didn't seem to be many logical options to choose. He leaned against hard rock, his eyes closed tightly. He impatiently scratched the floor with his foot. Three large indentations could now be seen in the soil. "Ugh..." The carnotaur looked up at the sky, eyes now open but narrowed. He bared his teeth. "It can't be this hard to come up with a plan like this!"

"Might I make a suggestion, sir?" A cool feminine voice questioned from beside Chomper.

Chomper swerved around to see Blueye standing there. Chomper sighed with relief, realizing it was just a sickleclaw. "You have a plan?" The pale yellow sickleclaw nodded, smiling slightly. "Okay. Shoot."

Blueye paced slowly, her head remaining looking in his direction, rarely looking away. "If you want Rex to come to you, why not use one of his friends as bait?" Chomper cocked an eyebrow, interested. "All you'd have to do is capture someone Rex knows and cares about, and lead him to you." Smiling, she said, "You can make him yours then. If he doesn't comply, you could kill off his pal."

For a while, Chomper just stood there, silent. His face was a mask devoid of all emotion, save for a slightly raised eyebrow. Blueye started to feel nervous. Whenever Chomper was like this, usually meant he didn't like the idea. And she knew what sometimes happens when Chomper didn't like something. Shaking, the small sharptooth backed away, cowering in the shadow of the horned sharptooth. All was silent except for the sound of breaking from the two animals. Chomper's red eyes glinted in the light.

After many minutes, Chomper started to speak slowly, voice dark. "You want me...to try and find someone he knows, and use them as bait?" The raptor gulped, and didn't respond. After several more minutes passed in eerie silence, sound of the trees' leaves russling easily heard from miles away. Suddenly Chomper smiled crookedly. "I love it! I love it!"

The pale yellow raptor, almost too stunned to move, let out a huge sight of relief. She wiped her forehead. "That was close..." She whispered.

Chomper lowered his gaze towards her face. "But..do you know where I could find one of his pals? It'd be too much of a hassle to try and capture the ones at the hideout."

Blueye answered, "Well Claw and I did discover another traitor in the sickleclaw pack." She said dutifully. "Well not really a traitor. Turns out he was spying on us, but before he could make his first trip to the plant-eaters, Red and Snowbound apprehended him. They brought him to the Prisoner's Corner, back in Fortress Valley. But one of our flyer scouts spotted him entering the valley. We don't know where he is exactly, but he's here...somewhere."

Chomper blinked. "So, you're telling me there was a spy in our group?" After recieving a nod from Blueye, he shook his head. "Why can't all sharpteeth understand what I'm trying to do?" He let out a sigh. He wasn' expecting an answer. "Who was he? And why didn't anyone tell me about this?" His eyes flashed with anger.

She cringed as she stared at his eyes. "We didn't tell because...because..." She struggled to come up with a good reason why no one's mentioned the spy before. "Well...you see...we thought...well we were going to...I mean...I-I..." Her mind just wasn't working for her at this particular moment.

He growled under his breath. "Fine, you don't have to tell me why. Just tell me who the spy was."

(A/N Yes, I did get permission from Sora W.T.K to use Yu.)

"His name is Yu." Blueye answered softly. Chomper's eyes widened at the mention of the name. "In appearance, he's a..."

She was cut off abruptly. "He's a sickleclaw, green with blue stripes, with blue-green eyes."

"Y-You know him?" She asked cautiously.

"Yes...Yes I know him..." He closed his eyes as memories flooded back to him. "I met Yu when I was younger. We were best pals but...that was a long time ago." His eyes snapped open, full of determination and fury. "Things are different now!"

"So how do you want us to go about in capturing the spy?"

The blue sharptooth looked down at the raptor. "Send out a couple of the strongest raptors to apprehend him. Send out even 10 or 20 if you must!"

Blueye saluted her boss. "As you wish, sir!" With that, she took off to find her fellow sickleclaws and handpick the strongest and fastest ones. Chomper watched her leave, and he turned around and walked away. He was unaware that he was being watched by a small figure, perched high up in the trees, body shielded by the large treestars.

The past few days had been confusing for Petrie. He hadn't seen Littlefoot or the others for a while. He had taken off to fly around, and he had been attacked by a dark flyer. He couldn't remember much of what happened, but he had been hopelessly lost since then. He had inadvertantly hid himself in a tree that was very close to where some of Chomper's troops had been hiding. He barely managed to fly away in time before the troops spotted him.

He had found this tree, and thought it would be better. But with Chomper so close by today, he was frozen in terror. He was grateful that Chomper didn't see him up in the treetops. He had caught bits and pieces of the conversation. He was too high up to hear every word, but he understood enough. Upon hearing the names Yu and Rex, and the word capture, Petrie was able to piece together inside his mind what Chomper was planning to do. And he wasn't about to let that happen! He'd have to find Yu first himself.

Petrie said, "Me must find Yu! Me must!" Gathering up all his courage, Petrie jumped off the branch and started soaring through the sky. His huge eyes scanned the ground for any raptor-like form. It wasn't long before he spotted something and he banked in that direction to get a closer look.

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Down further where Petrie was going, a young velociraptor was roaming about. His back was hunched and he was sleeking along the side of the wall. He was sticking to the shadows as much as he could and his green body was distorted by the green foliage he was walking through. The only thing that stood out was his blue stripes. Yu heard something, and he pressed his back against the stone wall, his blue-green eyes, wide, scanning for any sign of enemy raptors. He couldn't see any, and he moved on ahead, but still cautious about his surroundings.

Yu sniffed the air. When he caught a whiff of something, he moved in that direction. He was trying to track down Littlefoot and Rex. No matter how long it's been since they've seen each other, Yu would never forget their scent. The green sickleclaw had learned a lot about Chomper's schemes and he was planning on sharing his information with Littlefoot. But first, he'd have to find Littlefoot. The Great Valley was huge, and Yu had no idea where the plant-eaters were hiding.

"This is like finding a bone in a giant dirt pile." He muttered almost bitterly to himself. He took another sniff of the air, and growled in frustration when he could no longer pick up the scent. It was too well mangled in with the scent of rotting flesh, other plant-eaters, and many sharpteeth who had passed by this place before. "How will I ever find them!"

Almost as if on cue, something knocked him on the pack of the head. He let out a scream of pain and turned around, teeth bared for the attacker. But when he didn't see anyone, he felt confused. Then he heard someone speaking. "Yu! Yu! Yu!"

"Who's there?" He asked, voice still stern with caution.

"Yu! It me! Petrie!"

"Petrie?" Yu spotted the flyer. "Petrie it is you! My how you've grown.." He commented, admiring Petrie's wingspan in envy.

"No time for standing around! You must hide!" Petrie shouted in panic.

The green sickleclaw titled his head to one side. "Why?"

"Chomper! He plans to capture you!"

"Why?" Yu asked, though it was clear he was already scared.

"To get to Rex!" Petrie answered loudly.