The Order's Intermission

Story by AnthroLover on SoFurry

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#55 of Out of the Shadows: AnthroLover's Version


Rex was still stuck in the wall by the vines. He kept forcing them, and was being able to make them weaker, but yet he was having a lot of trouble to get ride of them. The spirit longneck said that he was going to have help. Well, this help would be very welcome now. Then a voice called his attention.

"Hello again, my dear." At this a fire illuminated the cave. It was Dark Rex again "You!" Rex exclaimed, trying to play that he was still well tied and that the bounds were not breaking "What do you want now?" The dinosaur/dragon hybrid smiled at him. "Oh well, just thinking about letting you know the goods. Two days ago I leaved your friends to a stoneglare." He said with a grin.

Rex eyes widened "You did what!?"

Dark Rex ignored him and said "And this night we arrested a traitor. He was having a romance with a leaf eater. Do you believe this?" He said with a laugh. Rex was surprised by this. Well, this made him remember a lot of Dice and Silence. But he was surprised that something like that could happen in the given situation.

"And now." Dark Rex continued "We are going to decimate the rest of the leaf eaters of this smelly handful of sand that they call valley". And so he laughed. Rex snarled at him "Don't you dare."

Dark Rex laughed again, this time of Rex "So what? You are stuck in here, and there is nothing you can do to stop me." So he leaved, leaving Rex alone again in the dark. The dracovol drooped his head "If someone is going to help me" He muttered to himself "It would be good if it was now."


The sun rose. It's rays perked over the place known as Great Valley. Once a place of life and safety, now a place of death and desolation. The rays illuminated the group that was marching in the valley. Littlefoot right ahead, followed by close by Sandstorm and Yu, Ali, Ducky and the alimon pack, their shadows darkening the land around then. Littlefoot's face was heavy with anger, and his eyes were narrowed to the point of being slits , and his teeth were bared. The others around him where nervous, even Gorjak, who was peeking on Littlefoot's head, but they tried to hide it.

Not too long after they started they march, the group was jioned by the survivors, leaf eaters all came out of hiding, and joined up with Littlefoot. Many of them lost all or most of their families to the hideous sharpteeth. Nychus and Syna also caught up with the group. The once small group had grown much larger, consisting of both meat-eating and plant-eating animals.

Not too far out in front of them, maybe two miles, Chomper was leading his army towards Littlefoot's army. Walking next to Chomper was Dark Rex. The hybrid smiled almost proudly, walking side by side with Chomper. The army of sharpteeth was larger than Littlefoot's combined group. The majority of the sharpteeth were of the bonecrusher variety. There were several ridgeheads, even more sickleclaws, a handful of Spinosauruses, and a couple of other horned sharpteeth like Chomper and Loc. Hidden among the group was a pair of longclaws, or Therizinosauruses. They normally feasted on vegetation or insects, but they had agreed to join Chomper's army. Chomper wanted them for their uniquely long claws, which stretched for about three feet from the claw root.

Loc was walking close behind Dark Rex and Chomper. All doubt in his mind over these days had faded away into nothingness. They were replaced by arrogance and confidence. With a pack this size, how could Littlefoot and his pesky friends possibly hope to win?

"There they are!" A ridgehead who was near the front announced. General Dark Rex narrowed his eyes, and held out his paw, halting the army. General Chomper held out his paw as well, as if confirming the hybrid's order to stop. Rather abruptly, the pack stopped in their tracks, and some growled, snarled, and snapped impatiently.

"Why are we waiting?" Blueye growled. "They're over there!". Once again the raptor didn't noticed the apprehension on her daughter's face as Sylvia stood right on her side.

"Why don't we charge already!?" Asked a raptor.

"They're just walking pieces of meat!" Came the reply of another raptor.

Littlefoot stopped on a hill, and glared at the sharptooth pack on the other hill. The fields opened up to create a relatively large plain, an open battleground. "There they are..." Came the hiss of Littlefoot, who now stood right in the front of the army. Ready for attack.

Sandstorm walked out into the front, and peered out ahead. He felt a strange feeling in his heart, possibly rage, when he spotted Red near the front of the pack. He tensed up his body, and prepared to lunge forward. Yu stood by, and he felt the same way as Sandstorm when the green raptor spotted Jackel. He prepared to attack on Littlefoot's word.

Spellbound and Shuva were analysing the group in front of them. They could tell that they were in bigger numbers. And by the look of them they were the strongest sharpteeth left. It was going to be a really tough battle.

From a hill close, was standing Gris, with Garick at his side. The alimon had a savage grin in his face as he spoke to his son "Now. When they start fighting I'll send the signal to our troops. They will be so busy with one another that they will never notice us. We will destroy them both and rule this valley."

For several minutes, the two groups just stood there, staring at the other, waiting for the other to make their move. The dark clouds rolled over head, and a loud thunder-clap clashed through the skies. The sound sent a chill through the hearts of both sharpeeth and leaf-eater alike. Others stood unaffected by the deafening roar of thunder as they stared at their enemies, a growing hate emerging in their hearts and minds.

The silence was unbearable for some of the dinosaurs, and they expressed it by growling and snapping at each other, whether they were plant-eater or meat-eater. Finally General Chomper took a step forward, smiling insanely. "So it comes down to this!" He said. "Well it's over for your free life, plant-eaters! Why don't you go easy on yourselves and give up?" He grinned. "I dreamed of this for years."

Sandstorm growled, and opened his mouth to speak, but Littlefoot interrupted. He stepped up to speak. "We will not go down so easily, Chomper!" He declared. "It doesn't matter if you are willing to try make one of your's to seduce one of us. We will fight you! This is your last chance, sharpteeth! Go home!"

Chomper laughed coldly at the longneck's statement. "Well, I think you're talking about the rainbow face you send to seduce one of my hing-ranking man. Why, Littlefoot...we are home!" Lightning flashed, illuminated the carnotaurus's face eerily.

Dark Rex looked behind at his and Chomper's army, and made a gesture. "Come on! Attack!"

The pack of sharpteeth roared and growled in agreement. Showing their long teeth in their jaws, and displaying their talons, they rushed forward towards the group out in front of them. They raced with all their ferocity, and nothing was going to stop them.

Or so they thought.

When they were advancing, the opposite army ready to receive the blow, suddenly there was a bright pink flash between them. The sharpteeth backed away, and so did the leaf eaters. Both Littlefoot and Chomper eyes widened. Both thinking that it was another trick of the other. The alimons were startled by that. It was different from anything they had seen in a long time. And even they, who understood of magic, could not tell what it was.

Gris take a look of shock as he saw that link flash in the middle of the battle "What the-" was all he could say. He did not knew what it was, and surely wasn't expecting for this.

Dark Rex covered his eyes. This was a surprise for him. He didn't remembered had ever seeing something like this in his life.

But the greater surprise was after that quickly flash. When it subsided, in the place was a group of dinosaurs that was not there before. This group consisted of Salen, Balcan, Bayron, Bari, Vanny, Hanna, Ginna, an orange yellow belly named Toofah that used his amulet of the order as headband, a female rainbow face with light blue eyes named Diana who used her amulet as a bracelet on her right arm and, most surprisingly, a pink dracovol with emerald green-eyes, who used her amulet as a necklace.

Everyone was surprised that a group like that had shown in such a way and during the final fight. The group quickly dispersed as Salen gasped and Toofah tried to hold his breakfast in his stomach. Hanna quickly apologized "Sorry guys. Sometimes this mess up with your guts."

Toofah gulped his food back and said "It's okay." His voice was young and full of life "The important is that we arrived here."

"What is the meaning of this?" Asked Chomper, stepping forward. "Who are that Littlefoot?" The longneck looked back at the sharpteeth "I should ask you this Chomper, since most of them are sharpteeth. Is this another of your tricks?"

But before the horned sharptooth could answer, the jade-green sickleclaw took the word "We belong to no side of this stupid war." Everyone one now was looking at them. "We came here to tell you to stop it right now."

Chomper stared at him "And what if I don't want?". Salen stared back at him "Then we are going to force you to stop." His group nodded. Chomper looked at him for a few seconds before bursting in laugh. "Oh, really? And what makes you think that your little group could stop my whole army? Who do you think you are?"

The sickleclaw stood proudly "I'm Salen, the sickleclaw; Son of the Earth, The Walking Earthsake , The Stone and Rock, The Tunnel Maker, The Boulder Mover and The Landslide." He then hold the necklace, showing the symbol "Member of the Order of Leaf and Claw".

Everyone mumbled at those words. Spellbound and Shuva shared a look between them, they had heard many times of stories and legends of every kind, but they never had heard of this order. "Order of Leaf and Claw?" asked Littlefoot, still mistrusting. "I have never heard of such a thing."

Salen looked back at him "Is because we have been a secret for long."

"So why do you show yourself now?" The longneck asked.

Salen looked back at him "Because only now we started using our own legs to walk." He then said out loud to everyone around to hear. "This war is senseless and will only bring pain and misery to everyone. This must stop right now before it gets worse."

"It already has gotten worse." said Yu "Don't you see all the suffering around you? And why do you care?"

Bayron gave him a death-glare "Because it is our mission and our goal. We exist to keep the world and to protect it. And for, someday, make possible to leaf eaters and sharpteeth to live together in harmony."

Chomper laughed again at those words. "You." He said staring at Salen and Balcan "Do you know as ridiculous this sounds? Who pathetic and weak do you look saying something like this? We are stronger that any leaf eater. We deserve to rule over this valley, and they serve only as our food."

Salen stared back at him "It happened in this valley generations ago, as well as in Fortress Valley. And it happens now in our valley. And it is surely a thing that the seven brothers would believe."

"Huh?" Chomper said puzzled. The others all started to mumble between them again, confused. Balcan then spoke "Hold on Salen, remember that they had long forgotten the story." The sickleclaw nodded. "Yes I forgot."

"What story?" Littlefoot asked "Who are the seven brothers?" Balcan chuckled "Tell then Salen. You remember this story better than me, and you know better how to tell." Salen looked at him and nodded, then he started to tell "This is a story that was forgotten in many places for many dinos, but not in our order. We remember and tell this story to remember of our ideals and our goals. This is the story that says about a lot of things. This is the story of the seven brothers."