Freedom, Allies and Confrontation
#59 of Out of the Shadows: AnthroLover's Version
Back at the real world, Bayron took his hand off of the hybrid head, stumbling backwards. For he had been some minutes, but he had actually held the head for just around four seconds. When he let go of the head, the creature to gasped for air, then something happened. The creature started to change. His whole body started to shrink, his wings were no longer ripped in places, the long fangs retracted back to his mouth. At the same time, a bright light formed around his neck. When it finished, there was in front of them a normal young dracovol with a necklace with the symbol of the Order of Leaf and Claw standing there.
All the present dinosaurs were shocked by this sudden transformation, but the members of the order were most shocked to see one of their amulets appearing in the neck of someone who was trying to kill them a few seconds ago. Vanny was the first to speak "What in the world is that?" He asked pointing to Rex neck, to the amulet. Bayron looked to him and answered campy. "Well, it seems that the spirits though of him like being worth."
Then Bari appeared in a blink beside Vanny "Well, calling Bayron. This guy is on Chomper's side, and he just tried to kill us." Bayron turned to him "It was not his fault." He said firmly "He was being controled by an evil force, and now he is free. And the spirits would not give him the amulet and make him part of our order if they weren't sure that he deserved." Then Lara, who was hoving above, came down and helped Rex to get to his feet.
"So, you're on our side now?" She asked him, but before Rex could answer, Chomper's voice came "Rex! What happened? Why did you changed back?" Rex then turned to face Chomper, the big horned sharptooth was surprised to see the eyes of the dracovol blazing with anger "I came back to normal because now I'm free of your madness!" he screamed back, startling the others. In part for the anger in his voice, and most because of the fire that engulfed his body, making he seem like a haunt.
Chomper was far the most shocked of all, he took a few moments to find his voice again "What are you talking about? This was our plan. Our goal is to lead together. What about us?" Rex took one step closer, the fire around his body increasing in strength. He spoke, every word shaking with anger "You threatened to kill Yu to make join you. You made me become a monster and turn against my friends. You betrayed all of us and caused death and suffering to everyone. There is no 'us' you sick bastard, and if there ever was it was because I was out of my mind. I want no part with you or your sick goal. And if you gave one more step and threaten the others again, I'm going to make you suffer."
The sharptooth army backed away in fear, but Chomper just stood there, his face utterly shocked. Rex had betrayed him. He made of Rex his General to lead the army by his side and now Rex was betraying him. This was far worse than any of the previous. Nor Sandstorm, Yu, or even Nick would be that bad. Because none of them made this feeling of betrayal so deep in him. And none of them had ever made this... pain... on his chest, like his own heart was being teared in half, and now he was fighting back tears.
"W-wha... You..." Chomper tried to speak, barely finding his voice. "You... YOU DARE BETRAYING ME!?" he roars, making everyone back away "I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" He charged at Rex, fangs bared and face contorted with anger, what distracted everyone of the few tears that escaped of his eyes. Rex firmed himself in the ground and the fire in his body grew stronger. He was ready to fight to death. But them, their attention was diverged to the sky by a roar. Rex fire subsided and everyone looked up. And their jaws dropped.
Above then, making circles in the air, was a longneck! Yes, not a flamebreath with wings, but a wingless, big, groundy longneck, hoving above then and slowly making circles in the air towards the ground. Even the alimons were jaw-dropped, Spellbound even mumbled to no one in particular "Now I've seen everything." as the longneck came closer to the ground, they could see that there were some dinos on his back, seven of them, all sickleclaws. They were the sextuplets and Melissa.
The dark-brown longneck gently landed in a strong gust of wind, and turned to the members of the order, that remained unimpressed, due to have seen things like that many times. "So, I arrived in time?" Balcan chuckled "Yes Delan. Just in the right time, like always." The great longneck noticed Rex amulet, then exclaimed "Another member!? Great! New blood is always welcome in the order." Rex only kept staring at him in awe.
Chomper stared at them for a few seconds, them he snapped out of it and roared as he charged at the longneck. Delan them turned to him and, seeing he come in his direction, he blew. The gust of wind that came from his mouth take the strength of a hurricane, and was strong enough to stop Chomper in the middle of the air and threw him back several feet away.
Chomper landed with a thud, then Delan lowered his body and let the sickleclaws get down of his back. Loro then said "Okay now, everyone who wish to have tail kicked, make a line and I'll take one by one." The others could only laugh at their brothers behavior, except for Noro, but the fact was that they were all happy for finally acting.
Chomper then get up from the floor and looked at the bunch in front of him. "I'll kill all of you!" He threatened. The sextuplets shared a look and them took position. Toro, Noro and Doro made a line one beside another, then Soro and Loro climbed on them, and finally Zoro climbed to the top, forming the pyramid. Then they all were enveloped by a strong light as their shapes melted together. When the light faded, was standing there one single sickleclaw that had all their amulets and scars and was thirty feet tall! Melissa didn't stay behind, she stepped forward and then, to everyone's shock, she started to grow. She grew more and more, until she was around five feet taller than the new sickleclaw.
It was a miracle that with all that was happening the troop didn't turned away running for their lives or had fallen to the ground crying and begging for mercy. Even Blueye, normally so unaffected, was now with shaking legs and heart pounding in her chest, every one of her instinct telling her to run away. The red sickleclaw snarled at them and Melissa gestured. "Come here little guy." She tainted Chomper "Show me what you've got."
Chomper was stunned for a few moments, but he regained his composure "Do you think you scare us?" He said "Do you think we are afraid?" He didn't noticed that many of his troops actually were scared to death "You are wrong. We have planned for far to long to let anything get in our way." Chomper was so absent on his talk that he didn't noticed one purple sharptooth with red eyes walking forward behind him.
"You will not make us retreat." He continued "You will regret being in our way when you all fall in front of us. I shall crush you all under my foot. I-" Chomper was cut out of his speech when he received a sharp kick in the back of his leg, making him fall to his knee. The kick was given by the purple sharptooth, Terry, who walked to Chomper's front and then head butted him, almost making him fall.
"Shut the hell up." Was all that Terry said before walking forwards to join the order. Chomper get up to his feet and looked at him "Another traitor?" Terry looked back at him "Another spy." He corrected, and at the same time the necklace with the symbol of the order became visible in his neck. Chomper only snarled "Still, you are another who betrays your own kind."
Delan, the longneck, laughed "Wow, he really thinks you are a sharptooth Terry." He said to his friend. Chomper was confused by this. "Yah know Terry." Delan continued "Sometimes I'd rather, instead of being able to fly, would like have your ability to shape shift." Terry looked back at him "Don't be so sure. It is strange to be in another shape for too long." He said "By the way." Then his body started to change.
His little arms stretched and became more muscled, as his fingers became talons. His head started to change and became smaller as his jaw became more pointed, at the same time that a shield of flesh and bone formed behind his head over his neck, and two horns sprouted from his forehead as another from the tip of his horn. His body went forward the ground until he was now standing in four legs. It was a muscular and proud threehorn, then he said "You don't know how is good to be back on my real shape after this long."
The sharptooth army was utterly shocked, and if Chomper's jaw could have dropped any further it would have hit the ground. A leaf eater! A leaf eater was able to go inside of their army and put himself on their ranks! And they never ever suspected! Chomper spoke strange, like he had forgotten how to. "W-wha? Who? How? I... I'll kill you!" he snarled in lack of anything better to say. Then he charged forward, but once again his attention was cut off by a screech. Then something landed right in front of him.
Chomper looked at it. It was a flyer sharptooth. Chomper then looked better, and his eyes widened. The sharptooth had a dark brown hide and pallid beak, in the fingers of his right hand there was a ring with the symbol of the order. He looked straight at Chomper with his yellow eyes and then a smile formed in his beak. "Hello Chomper" Greeted Sierra "Did you missed me?"
In a single moment Chomper had gone to extremely furious to scared to death. For much little he didn't lose the control of his bladder. His mind was having difficult processing what was going on. This couldn't be true. "Y-y-you" he said pointing a shaking finger to Sierra "You cannot be here. You're dead. I killed you!" Sierra only smiled at him "Are you sure?"
Chomper then went forward with his mouth open and ready to bite down in the flyer. But, this time, Sierra was ready. Chomper felt that Sierra had evaded his bite, he just didn't knew to what side. He then get up and looked. His heart skipped a beat.
Sierra had in fact gone to the two sides at the same time, and now there were two Sierras! They both landed, and the Sierra of the right asked "What is his problem?" And the one of the left only replied "I don't know." Chomper was shocked, but, guided by an instinct, he struck again. The two Sierras evaded the bite, and in this, one of then had somehow made another Sierra emerge from his body. The three flyers stood in a line and laughed in woodpecker style (a laugh completed by each one, If you saw a certain episode of woody woodpecker you will know what I mean).
Chomper backed away a few steps. This wasn't possible, this couldn't be happening! Yes. It was just a dream, at any moment he would wake up back in his grounds and discover that the final battle hadn't even started yet. "No Chomper." said Bayron, making the others look at him "This is no dream big guy." He continued saying "You're wide awake and this is really happening."
Chomper was taken back by this. This guy could read his thoughts? "S-shut up." He managed to say "This has to be a dream, what else could be?" Everyone traded looks. One of the Sierras took a few steps forward and made a large cut in Chomper's paw with his claws. The great sharptooth roared in pain. He looked down at the Sierra, who backed away back to the other "Well, it seems that is real."
Chomper then roared again and then charged forward, at this moment Balcan screamed "Now Hanna!" At this signal, the pink sickleclaw materialized a crystal made of pink light and threw it at Chomper, hitting him square in the chest. Chomper's eyes widened as the pink light enveloped him and his body vanished in a flash.
In the cliff, Gris and his son Garick were only watching. at some point, Gris simply had seen enough.
"Lets go." He said to his son "We need a new attack plan." Then he turned around and went away, with Garick following him after he gave a last look and smiled. everything was going good until now.
All the sharpteeth gasped at this. Many of them were ready to turn away and run, now that they had lost the advantage of the flamebreath and now that their leader was now gone. Blueye stepped forward "What you did to Chomper?" She demanded "Tell me!" Hanna looked at her "Geez, calm down, I just send him to another place."
Blueye's eyes widened "What!? To where?" Then Balcan spoke "To a place where Chomper can find out the truth and start following the right path again. And lead you all through it."
Blueye looked at him, she didn't got one single word. Then Balcan spoke again "What remembers me." He then turned to the other army, the one formed by leaf eaters and alimons. "Could Spellbound please step forward?" He asked. The alimons mumbled between them. Spellbound and Shuva shared a look. Then he stepped forward.
When Spellbound was in front of the army Balcan then said "Hanna?" The pink sickleclaw looked "You know what to do." Balcan said pointing to Spellbound, who looked confused. Hanna looked at Balcan then at Spellbound, than said "Sorry man." Then in her hand materialized another pink crystal of light, that she threw at the alimon.
Spellbound's eyes widened as the crystal traveled to him at incredible speed. He didn't had time to dodge as it hit his body and he disappear in a flash of pink light.
All the alimons and the leaf eaters gasped at this. Some of then snarled in anger by seeing one of their pack being attacked. Hanna quickly said "Calm down guys. He is okay. I just send him to another place." But Littlefoot stepped forward "Oh yeah? And why?" He said with anger blazing in his eyes. Hanna gulped by seeing the look and said "W-well, it was Balcan's idea."
Littlefoot then turned his look to the rainbow face with silver eyes, who only smiled and said "There is another place where Spellbound needs to be right now, and that is very important." Littlefoot snarled at him "Oh yeah? Like somewhere he can't help us?" Balcan looked at him "Excuse me?"
Littlefoot then gave another treating step forward "You suddenly appear in the middle of the war and offer to stop." He said "How can we trust you? For all we know this could be a very well conceived plot to deceit us. Or could this be a plan of your's Rex?" He finished looking at the dracovol, who looked confused "What?"
"Yes." Littlefoot continued "This could be your plan, right? you gained Chomper's trust to after betray him with your allies and them you could lead the pack and rule the valley on your own. It would be a good plan right?" Everyone was looking at Littlefoot now, some in disbelief that he could be this suspicious. Yu and Sandstorm shared a look, they knew that they couldn't simply trust in Rex, but this was now going to far. The members of the order were looking at him with a "you can't be serious" look. Then Lara spoke "Dude, if someone betrayed me I would find hard to trust this person again, but now you're being a bit paranoid."
Littlefoot looked at her "Oh, I am? It because Rex had betrayed us to join Chomper, and tried to kill me. I think that is normal that I think those things." But then Rex spoke "It wasn't my fault." Littlefoot the said "You attacked me and it wasn't your fault? How can it be?"
"Chomper had got Yu" Rex said desperate "He was going to kill him if I didn't join his army." At this some of the present in the army considered, especially Yu, but Littlefoot didn't was convinced "Well, you seemed very willing to fight on his side when you tried to incinerate me with your fire." Rex then lowered his face in shame "It wasn't me." He tried to say in his defence "You see, when I got to Chomper's side, my past life, that was a flamebreath, possessed my body and forced me to act that way. It was him, not me."
This took many to thinking, this was indeed a convincing explanation. but Littlefoot remained impassive. "But." He said "If the flamebreath was your past life, and you are his reincarnation., this doesn't mean that you and him could be the same person?" He asked still in anger. Rex had no real answer fo this "I... Well... Maybe."
Littlefoot then took another step forward, but Rex kept saying "But I'm telling the truth! Please Littlefoot, be reasonable!" Littlefoot looked at him with narrowed eyes. "Well, you say this, so prove it."
"Huh?" Was Rex response. Littlefoot then took fighting stance "If you really doesn't wanted to hurt us then you will proof it. Fight me. If you can defeat me without doing any damage to me yourself, then I'll believe you." He said, making Rex adopt a sorrowful look "Come on! Attack!"