Deadly Like The Dark
#40 of Out of the Shadows: AnthroLover's Version
Littlefoot looked flabbergasted. He had a 12 foot long carnivore on his back, in a spot he couldn't reach. She could easily bite into him, and tear out his skin, and she was asking him if he was all right? He couldn't get a real good look at her, no matter how far he pulled his neck back. Shuva jumped off of him, and walked into view. She stared up at the longneck. Even though he wasn't fully grown, Littlefoot was easily twice her size. The longneck stared down at the alimon, and realized what she was. "You're...an alimon?" He whispered, his eyes widening with surprise.
The small creature smiled softly, despite the situation that they were in. "Yes...yes I am." She admitted, with a hint of guilt in her voice. "Sorry I'm so late."
"Late? Late!" Littlefoot shouted. "You're far from a little late! Do you know how much suffering I had to go through before you finally decided to show!" Shuva winced, and backed away. "And when you alimons finally decide to help, only you come!" He bared his teeth. "You just wanted us to suffer! Didn't you? Didn't you! You just wanted to wait until the worst of times to finally decide to help!"
Shuva let out a soft whimper, knowing the apatosaurus spoke the truth. Well it wasn't all true anyway. She remembered she was an alimon. Her whimper turned into a growl. She didn't need to take this from anyone, especially not some plant-eater she could easily have for lunch!
Her tail raising up straight into the air and her lips pulled back enough to reveal her gums lined with long sharp teeth, she shouted, "What makes you think that! We made a deal with the valley! We protected it for years, you stupid longneck!" She reared up on her hind legs to make her appear larger than she really was. "Chomper put a spell on us! He made it so we couldn't be aware of what was happening! Magic blinded us!"
Littlefoot backed away, some of his anger melting into shock. "Magic...? So...he was right... Magic does exist..." He looked at the alimon, his eyes still slightly narrowed. "But if he put a spell on your kind, why are you not in its grasp?" He asked in an accusatory tone of voice.
"Gorjak. He found a counterspell. Only enough for one. He chose me. My name is Shuva." She lowered herself to the ground, feeling her own hostility fading away, her heart rate returning to normal.
"Excuse me!" Rex yelled. "What in the world do you think you are doing, alimon!" He lowered himself to the ground, his clawed feet digging into the earth. Rex folded his wings against his side, and pointed a clawed finger at the new dinosaur. "You aren't supposed to know about this!" His tongue snaked across one of his long fangs. "How can you possibly..." Suddenly the alimon sprang forward, colliding with the dragon and forcing him onto his back.
"I'd like to ask you the same thing!" She pressed her snout against his. "You were his friend! I saw you when you were younger! I saw you playing together! You saved his life from that velociraptor!" Littlefoot and Rex's eyes both were open in shock and astonisment. "Why would you betray him!"
Rex couldn't comprehend how this alimon could've known about his previous friendship with Littlefoot, or how she knew about Zill, the velociraptor whom he had killed years ago. He smiled as the memory flooded back. It was the first kill he ever made, and he loved every minute of it. He loved Zill's expression as he tore into him. He loved Bull's reaction when he ripped out the internal organs of Zill. He loved Zill's expression after he was dead, that horror-stricken look. He grinned. "Like I told him before, I'm just working for a bigger team now."
He spread his wings wide. "Perhaps I should make you both suffer the same fate I gave to Zill." He knocked off Shuva with one of his paws, and pulled himself off the ground. He launched himself into the sky, hoping to divebomb one of them, and rip out their flesh with his enormous teeth. But his plan backfired. Shuva jumped up and sank her teeth into one of Rex's wings. Pain flowed through Rex's body as the immensly sharp teeth began to tear his wing membrane. He used his long tail to whip her in the eye, the only vulnerable spot on Shuva that he could see.
Shuva shrieked, releasing her grip on the dracovol's wing. She crashed into the ground, onto her back. Quickly, despite the bleeding coming from his torn wing, the dracovol dove down, his claws extended far enough to cut into the alimon's skin. Littlefoot rushed forward as fast as he could, and used his head to slam into the dragon-possessed dinosaur's stomach, knocking him offbalance and hurtling away from the crashed alimon.
Rex quickly righted himself up, and landed back on the ground. "So you both have fight in you." He said, his red eye glistening with interest. "So this won't be a dull fight after all..." He lunged forward again, letting out a loud roar, and Shuva and Littlefoot could both see the flames raging forward, getting ready to be spat out and burn them alive.
Loc walked inside the cave where the other sharpteeth were hiding out. Some of the sharpteeth were hanging out outside. They hadn't seen any signs of plant-eaters, and since they were in such a remote part of the valley, why would they need to hide? Blueye was the first to notice Loc, and she ran to greet him.
"Loc, good to see you are still alive." She addressed, bobbing her head up and down. Loc hadn't suffered any bad injuries as far as she could tell. She was beginning to worry about Chomper. She hadn't seen him for a while. What could he be doing right now?
"At least a good lot of us lived." He said softly. "We can still counterattack. They are weak. They are few."
"Say, Loc, you haven't by any chance seen General Chomper, have you?" The pale yellow raptor tilted her head. "I haven't seen him for a while."
The red sharptooth smirked. "He's out somewhere. He's putting another plan in motion. Don't worry about him."
Just then another sharptooth approached. Loc turned his head to see Red approaching them. The dark crimson raptor looked angry about something. "I just recieved news that the traitorous Sandstorm survived our brutal assault." Loc narrowed his eyes, but not in anger, but in confusion. "I thought for sure we finished him off! We should've been more thorough... If he is with those plant-eaters, then they have inside information, OUR inside information."
"I wouldn't worry about it." Loc spoke with a malice tone close to that of Chomper's. "He's an old veteran. He'll be gone before you know it."
"YOU WERE A SPY!" Chomper roared furiously as he tried to snag the flyer from the sky with his jaws. Gorjak just flew up higher, almost laughing as the horned sharptooth tried to swat him with his hand claws. "WASN'T ANYONE THERE ACTUALLY THERE TO LEARN!"
Gorjak narrowed his eyes. "I learned plenty. I learned that what you and your sick father were and are doing is against the laws of nature! I learned of what you do to innocent dinosaurs that you capture!" He landed up in the nearest tree. "I learned how to fake my own cruelty to blend in with your kind. I learned I had to do something to save this valley. I didn't like doing the things I did, but it was well worth it. I fooled you. Oh I fooled you all." He couldn't help but deliver a good laugh at that.
Chomper growled and headbutted the tree, causing it to shake. Gorjak said, "Whoa...whoa...whoa..." He took flight just before the tree was ripped from its roots and fell to the forest floor.
"Ali, calm down. Let it come out slowly." Ducky said, her voice soothing to Ali's mind as she struggled to get this egg-laying thing business underway. Ducky stroked Ali's head, trying to calm her mind as the agonizing pain of egg-laying filled her mind. The female longneck's face was stained with tears.
Yu and Sandstorm stood close by, but apart from each other. They watched and waited for the new life to come out. Once the egg would come out, they knew they'd have to protect this cave even better than before. The young dinosaur inside would be vulnerable for a long time, and it's even more vulnerable inside the egg. They listened to Ali's groans, whines, and whimpers as she struggled with the pain and the pressure.
Doc also stood close. He knew nothing of what to do. All he could do was stare sympathetically at Ali's tear-stained face. "Hang in tough there, kid." He spoke softly, his eyes softening with worry.
Finally the female longneck gave out a huge sigh of relief. "It's out." She turned her neck to see the newly laid egg. It lay nestled in the small nest Ducky had made to help keep it warm. The egg was pure white, just like Littlefoot's own egg was, except for a couple spots on one side of it. Ali didn't think much of it, but Sandstorm's eyes widened a little. The spots meant something. Unbenownst to the new mother Ali, the spots were a warning...
"So...it's finally coming to pass." He murmured sadly.