A Forbidden Love
#52 of Out of the Shadows: AnthroLover's Version
from this chapter on the majority of the ideas and writing are mine. It may not please all readers, but I hope you all like.
"But why we don't attack now?" asked Jackel, along with many other fast biters
"We can take the valley now." screamed another sharptooth.
"They have no chance already." Another one screamed too.
In the middle of this a huge roar made everyone go silence. It was Chomper that roared to make everyone shut up. After the silence take place Chomper smiled to his troops and calmly said "My friends, my soldiers, I understand your wish to fight now, and I hinglly appreciate it. But it has no hurry now. The leaf eaters are already weakened and their spirits completely broke." He grinned as he said the last words. "We have no need to act right now when we can appreciate or moment of glory. Tonight we will celebrate. Celebrate our future in this valley. Eat and sleep well tonight, because tomorrow we will take this valley, once and forever!"
When he said the last words he received an ovation from his troops. The sharpteeth all cheered at him while he walked away, followed close by Dark Rex. The troops had already received the notice that Dark rex was now a general, some were surprised that Chomper had actually choose someone to be general aside himself. Many thought that maybe this Rex guy was not worth trusting at all, but they all received the news with composure.
"It was a really nice speech of you General Chomper." Dark Rex greeted the blue horned sharptooth. "Short but strong." Chomper turned to him with a smile "Thank you General Rex. My father already told me when I was younger that I had real talent with words."
"Well, he was right. You know the right thing to say to lift someone." Dark Rex greeted with a toothed grin. Chomper could feel his cheeks heating. What was this? He was blushing!? He was General Chomper! He didn't blush! He quickly diverged his face from the dinosaur/dragon hybrid as he said "W-well, thank you." Lucky for him the attention was diverged by a voice.
"General Chomper."
The two great dinos turned to the source of the new voice. It was Sylvia. Chomper almost sighed relived that she had arrived now. He had sent her to Fortress Valley to check at the place and see if was everything right and that none of the prisoners had escaped. He quickly walked to her to talk "Ah, Sylvia. So, is everything right back in Fortress Valley?"
"Everything seemed quite fine." It was her response.
"No problems at all?" asked Chomper. She only shrugged "Nothing I couldn't take care of myself." Chomper smiled by hearing this. "Good, now why don't you eat something? You must be starving."
She polite refused "Nah, its okay, I have a heavy lunch in Fortress Valley. maybe I don't even need to dinner tonight. I ate till the last bite." It was truth, she really had eaten a lot. Chomper only chuckled at her "As you wish."
Behind him Dark Rex cleared his throat, calling for their attention. "Oh, what a head of mine. Sylvia, this is General Rex. From now on he will lead half of the troop along with me." Sylvia was taken back by the notice that Chomper had actually promoted someone to General, but she acted accord, bowing her head in a sign of respect. This made Dark Rex smile.
Pterano was flying like mad. It couldn't be truth, he probably would find Petrie okay and discover that was all a thing of his head.
But he hadn't this kind of happiness.
Already from a distance he could see, in a place that seemed to be left not to long ago, a body of a flyer that seemed awfully familiar. No, tell me it isn't. Pterano though on despair as it sank in. And even more as he come closer and could confirm by the features that those were really the mortal remains of his nephew. He landed and slowly walked closer to the half body in front of him, the eyes still open in horror and pain.
"Petrie..." He said in a shaken voice, he grabbed the corpse and used his wing to close its eyes, giving it a more peaceful look, then he just couldn't hold it anymore. He hugged the body tight and close to him as tears started to pour from his eyes like a waterfall and he sobbed.
The only family that he had, the only one that was left to him in this world, was now gone. He was completely alone now.
This day had went quickly, the sharpteeth pack was now feasting in the remains of the dead leaf-eaters that they could catch. They were singing and were quickly becoming drunk of satisfaction. there were laughs and many sang songs of how the valley would fall and how the sharpteeth were invincible and would reign. But not everyone was in the party.
Terry had stayed away, like he always does. Sylvia was going to sleep, as she had already ate before the festivities start, without anyone seeing as usual, in her words she "doesn't wanted to be in the middle of such a mess", this only granted a laugh from her mother.
In the middle of the party was Jackel, eating a great slab of swimmer meat, along with Meta. That's when Meta noticed something.
"Hey, where is Nick going?" Jackel looked at him and then in the direction that he was looking. He saw really, Nick, one of the hingest ranked sharpteeth in the pack, walking away from the rest of the others. Almost like he was sneaking.
Jackel narrowed his eyes at this. What was Nick doing? Where he was going at this time? It couldn't be for food or water since there were carcasses over there and they were right next to a lake. And why it seemed like he wanted to go undetected? All those questions made the sickleclaw take a decision.
"Lets see where he is going." Jackel said as he went after Nick without being seen. Meta hesitate a little, took one last bite of meat and went after him.
Gorjak was now flying over the Great Valley, seeing all the bodies scattered over the whole place, he stopped over in a tree and sighed heavily. It was hard to believe that this once was a place of peace and beauty. But now, was just of death and suffering. He looked one last time over the valley before leaving, but he caught something in the corner of his eye.
In the middle of the carcasses there was something moving... It was a rainbow face! A young rainbow face in the top of her wealth, and seemed to be not much older than Littlefoot and his friends. She was walking around all the bodies, she seemed to be going to somewhere, and was being very cautions, like doesn't wanting anyone to she.
Maybe she is hiding from te sharpteeth. Gorjak though. Maybe she has others with her and they're all hiding. Gorjak thought of maybe appearing to her, but she would probably attack or run away, so he decided to follow her to she were she was going.
Meta and Jackel had kept a track of Nick successfully without him noticing, luckily they were both good at sneaking around. They had followed him right to a forest in the valley. And right now they were sneaking. That was when someone said "Ouch!"
Jackel, startled, quickly jumped out of sight as Nick turned around. Not seeing anything, Nick continued his way. When jackel was sure he had not noticed he turned around to see want made Meta yelp. He saw the sickleclaw flat in the ground. He had tripped in one thing that he thought to be a root, but in a closer look discovered to be a tail. Gill's tail.
"What are you doing here?" whispered Meta to the bellydragger, who was in companny of Mel and the two a sharpbeaks. "We were trying to find those leaf eater that Chomper told us so." Said Gill in self-defense. "What are you doing here and why are we whispering?"
"We are following Nick." Jackel said in an impatient whisper. "He was acting strange so we decided to see what he was up to."
"Can we go with you?" asked Ichi "If there is anything that Chomper must know, so we will make sure of it."
Jackel stared at him with a look of "yeah, lets pretend it". He knew that they were only trying to find something to use as excuse to not be killed by Chomper when they arrived without success. Jackel only sighed and, in a rare show of compassion said "Okay, but keep hidden and stay quiet." And with that the group resumed their following.
They followed Nick for more a few minutes, until he arrived in a clearing. They keep hidden in the bushes and could see that in the clearing was a rainbow face, and that Nick was approaching her from behind. They thought that Nick was about to make a kill.
Gorjak had followed the rainbow face for some time now, he had followed her straight to a forest. It was hard to keep track on her from above the trees, but he did it.
The rainbow face stood in a clearing, she stayed there and walked around it, like she was nervously waiting for something, maybe other leaf eaters. Gorjak stood in a tree, between the branches, just watching. And he almost fell his heart stop when he saw a green sickleclaw with red strips and orange feathers on his head approach her from behind.
Gorjak was about to do something, to attack the sharptooth, to scream to her to "Look out!", but before he could the sharptooth said. "Lily."
The rainbow face, by hearing her name, turned back to face the one who called her, and saw the sickleclaw. But, to the surprise of the ones hidden, instead of getting scared and trying to run away, she smiled and her pink eyes brightened as she exclaimed "Nick!" And so she ran to him and hugged him tight.
This surprised and confused everyone, but not more than Nick hugging her back. They remained in the hug for a few seconds, then they separated, looked in one another's eyes, and put their lips together in a kiss.
Gorjak's beak fell agape, Jackel's eyes bulged open, and Gill's mouth was now so open that a basketball ball could fit in it without touching the sides. "What is going on?" was the though in everyone's mind. There is a war between leaf eaters and sharpteeth going on and now two of then were kissing like a newly mated couple?
The pair keep looked in the kiss until the need of air made them apart. "Oh Nick." said Lily "I was so worried about you. You were taking too long. I thought that they had found out about me, about us." Her voice filled with the most sincere of worries. Nick could only smile at his loved one. The one that made his whole perception of the world go different. The one for who he had fallen in love and that made all other females around him seem meaningless.
"Oh Lily, you know that I'm careful."
"Yes, but still a got worried." she said looking in his eyes. "So, what is up now?". Nick's smile faded, and sadness and worry filled his face. "They're all making a huge party." He said "Chomper plan to make us march over the valley tomorrow, taking everything in our way. He and the new one that he made General, some Rex guy"
She stared back at him "So tomorrow everything will change." She stated, Nick only lowered his head. "I'm afraid yes." They looked deep in one another eyes, then Lily rested her body against his, resting her head in his shoulder. "How I wish this night could last forever."
(AN: the music here is Right Here, Right Now; from Hing School Musical 3. Edited to fit the scenery.)
Nick looked at her as she rested her body in his. He then looked up and saw a star. The first star of the night. She wished, and maybe the star could make it true. He smiled at the though. Then a song started playing (for who is watching like in a tv), a piano song with a guitar. Then he started singing "Can you imagine what would happen if we could have any dream?"
Lily, surprised, looked at him, and him looked back to her and keep singing "I'd wish this moment was ours to own it and that it would never leave." She smiled at him, a warm smile, as he sang "Then I would thank the star who made our wish come true." "Come true" Lily sang as a playback, and he sang again "Cause it knows that where you are is where I should be too."
Then he took her hands in his and sang with all his heart "Right here, right now. I'm looking at you and my heart loves the view, cause you mean everything. Right here, I promise you somehow." He looked deeply and loving at her beautiful eyes that made the stars look without shine. "That tomorrow can wait for some other day to be." Lily made the playback "To be." "But right now there's you and me."
Lily then started to sing "If this was forever, what could be better? We've already proved it was. But things are going down and in so little time will blend the universe." They sang the four last words together, and then Lily sang again in solo. "Gonna make everything in our whole world change." And Nick sang "It's our change, yeah." And Lily keep singing "And you know that where we are will never be the same. Oh no."
Then she sang in a more happy tone "Right here, right now, I'm looking at you and my heart love the view, cause you mean everything. Right here, I promise you somehow, that tomorrow can wait for some other day to be." And Nick sang in playback "To be." and so he and lily sang together "But right now there's you and me."
"Oh, we know that it's coming." Nick sang and Lily sang "And it's coming fast." At the same time that Nick sang the playback "As long as there's you and me." And so he sang "So let's make this second last." and he sang along with Lily "Make it last."
Then Nick sang "Right here." And so was Lily turn "Oh, right now." Nick sang "I'm looking at you." Then Lily "And my heart loves the view." Then they sang together "Cause you mean everything. Right here, I promise you somehow." Nick sang "That tomorrow can wait-" Then Lily finished. "For some other day to be." Then Nick sang "To be. But right now there's you and me." Then Lily made the playback "You and me." Then Nick "You and me". Then they finished together "But right now there's you and me." They sang the last part approaching their faces slowly, and connected their lips in a warm kiss, as the world seemed to fade around then.
Gorjak was stunned for a few moments. The he snapped out of this. "I have to tell Littlefoot about this." He said to himself and flew away, ahead to the caves. The sharpteeth were very much in the same situation. Jackel nudged Meta, making he snap out of it. "We have to go back and tell Chomper about this." Meta looked at him and once more at the two dinos that seemed to be stuck in one another by the mouths. "He is not gonna be happy about this." Then they walked away, leaving the pair alone. They would never hear what they talked next.
The need for air made them apart again. Then Nick had to drop his smile at a more serious though. "Lily, when they march over tomorrow they will probably kill anything in their way that is not a sharptooth." He looked deep in her eyes and grabbed her by the arms. "Lily, you need to leave the valley as soon as possible, before the day rise. search for a new home, a safe place to stay."
Lily looked at his eyes, seeing all the worry and the love he felt for her, she then put her hands gently on his face and said "So let's go together. Nick lets runaway together. To where they'll never find us." Nick sighed. "Lily, we've already talk about this. If I leave now without an explanation and without talking to someone, and even if I gave a good explanation, they would not accept my departure. They would track me by my scent and would so find yours along with me. Then they would chase us and so we would become the prey. Is too dangerous."
"But Nick." Lily hold his face straight to her's and said looking deep in his eyes. "We both are in danger every time we meet, why would this be different? This time we would be facing danger to search for a better future for us. To be in a place we don't need to hide anymore, were we can live safe together. A good place to when our child arrive."
Nick was taken back by the last words. His eyes widened as he stared at Lily in shock. "O-our... child?" Lily smiled at him, she took his hand and make him press it against her belly. He was extremely careful to not cut her with his sharp claws. He then felt something; a bulk that he was sure that wasn't there before. He looked stunned at her as she announced with a smile. "You are going to be father."
Gorjak flew at top speed trough the cave entrance, startling two alimons that were going out. He flew trough the tunnel until he came crashing in the great cave, startling everyone inside.
"Gorjak" exclaimed Littlefoot, he sounded angry like he had interrupted something important. Bu he had been like this the whole day since Rex betrayal "Why do you enter like this?" Gorjak took a few deep breaths and started tell the others what he had just saw.
Back in the sharpteeth territory, Jackel and company passed hurried by the others, looking for Chomper. Then they finally found him, talking with Rex. "Sir! Sir!" Meta screamed, getting his attention. They arrived in him, Meta gasping for air "What?" Chomper asked in an annoyed tone. Meta looked at him and gulped.
All the sharpteeth got their attention taken when their General screamed "WHAT!?"