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Part VII: Regrouping

Back in the place of the war. Both armies were there, just waiting. Both wanted to attack the other, due to the circunstances, but the sight of what the recent members of the order could do convinced them to stay out of fight.

One word that could describe the members of the order, at least Vanny, Lara, some of the sextuplets and Ginna, was bored. The others were just waiting there patiently, even Salen, who was keepig himself distracted by making small pebbles float in the air and shoot through the land.

"What exactly are we waiting for?" asked Doro. Balcan then turned his face to a certain direction, and pointed out "That."

The others turned to the direction he pointed, and saw some figures coming from the distance. Two walking in two legs, one bigger and other smaller, and four figures walking in all fours. The troops too noticed it and turned to watch the figures. Then they could see who it was when they came closer.

The biggest figure was Chomper, and he had a look full of sadness, different for his know confident and cruel look, two were alimons that they reconigzed as Spellbound and Morro, and there were one ruby-red alimon and a jade fast runner, both with bracelets of the order, that the order recognized, they were their own members, Garick and Tiana.

The Sharptooth troops were animated by seeing his commander again. They thought that their commander was ready to order another attack, ready capturing enemies to kill them. But they were surprised when Chomper came to in front of his troops and said "This has to stop!" The other stared at him oddly "This senseless war has to stop now!"

Now the sharptooth army became confuse. They traded looks and muttered between them. One of them said "What do you mean? You started this!"

"He is right." said another "You said that it was our right to rule this valley."

Chomper sighed and looked down guilty, them he spoke again. "We all were tricked." This caused more mutters "The alimons, the ones with the 'X' in their shoulders, they manipulated and tricked us into starting this war only to take advantage of this." He lowered his head again and fought back tears "They used us for nothing but gain!"

Both armies were now staring at Chomper. Both wondering what had gone up to him. The leaf eaters thought that he had now gone completally insane. The sharpteeth thought around the same thing. This was strange. This didn't seemed the same Chomper they had grown up with. Blueye then passed through them, and stood infront of Chomper looking him straight in the face. And them she said "So, there was no need for this?"

Chomper looked surprised at her. And then he said "This was all a scheme." Blueye listened with atention. Sylvia quickly ran to catch up with them. "The Slasher that brought me to Fortress Valley was not the same who you knew after me. It if that Slasher had actually existed. It was one of the alimons with a magical disguise. He planned all of this."

Blueye and Sylvia shared a look, and Chomper continued "This all was planned by him. We all were used. But I plan to try fix this, if you're willing to hel." Blueye looked him deep in the eyes and said "Lead the way."

Chomper looked deeply into her eyes. He was touched. Even after all he have done, and even that now he was suddenly acting really strage to his normal behavior, Blueye was still on his side. When was the last time he let himself feel touched like this? He could only smile at her.

While this, some of the alimons of Littlefoot's group noticed the "X" mark in the ruby alimon's shoulder. Recognizing him as a Darkarian. They snarled at him, calling attention.

"And who would be this?" asked Shuva. Spellbound was the one who answered "His name is Garick." The alimons looked at him "He is Gris' son."

By hearing this, Shuva, along with other alimons snarled, bared their teeth, and started slowly advancing against Garick. The ruby alimon took a fighting pose, and Tiana took place right by his side. But then Morro talked "It's okay." The others turned to him. "By what seems, he is on our side."

Shuva looked mistrusting at the "X" marked alimon. "How can you be sure?"

"Because before we came here he slammed Gris against a tree." Answered Spellbound, granting the others to look at him "And he seemed too realistic for someone who was just pretending."

The alimons talked among themselves, and looked at Garick. Spellbound said "If he brings any problem we can just kill him." Tiana them shoot him a deathglare

The alimons then calmed down. In this moment Chomper turned his attention to the leaf eaters, and started walking towards them. Yu and Sandstorm took fighting poses. Chomper merely ignored them and went straight for Littlefoot.

The longneck backed away one step. He was rady for any attack, but Chomper just stood in front of him, looking him in the eye. Littlefoot could see sadness and guilty in those eyes. But yet he asked "How can we trust you?" Chomper looked back at him "You don't have how to know." was his only answer, a single tears escaped one of his eyes, surprising Littlefoot. "I cannot fix the things I already did, but I can work out for making the future better." He said "All I ask is one chance."

Littlefoot considered. Chomper seemed sincere, but so did Rex when he betrayed him. But Rex was being controled by another, as Chomper was saying to have been. Chomper had did horribel things, and was the leader of a army of cruel sharpteeth, and he could very well be deceithful and liar. But when Littlefoot looked in his eyes, he didn't saw the monster that attacked his home and kiled his fellows and friends, not anymre, now he saw Chomper, the young sharptooth that came to be his friend. He tried to bring bad possibilities, but as soon as they appeared, appeared the things in Chomper's face, voice and behavior that made he thing better. That was when he took a mental decision.

The longneck looked deep into the eyes of his old friend, and said "I... I trust you."

The leaf eaters talked among them. Some saying that Littlefoot was insane and that Chomper simply couldn't be trusted. Chomper looked deep in Littlefoot's eyes and said weakly "Thank you."

"That is good boys!" Called Balcan's voice, making the others look at him. The old rainbow face was smilling happy at them "I'm really proud of you two."

Littlefoot and Chomper shared a look and turned back to the rainbow face. "And now, what do we do?", asked the blue sharptooth. Balcan smiled at him and said "Now we go to the meeting rock. The others will find us there."

"Others?" asked Littlefoot. Balcan then faced him. "The other members of the order, along with others. We will meet some of them in the way. Now we better go." Balcan said looking at the sky and to the bright circle's position. "We're almost late." he finished gesturing to the others to follow him. The others hesitated, but the members of the order did as it was. They started following Balcan. Doro turned to the others "You don't come?"

Littlefoot shared a look with Chomper and said "Y-yes, we're going." Then they both gestured to their groups to follow them, and them they went.

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Lily woke up with a sound. The sound of the stone in the entrace of the chamber being moved. She looked up to the entrance to see the rock being moved and then letting the passager open. It stod silently for a few moments. Then one figure stepped in sight. And her heart skipped a beat. It was a sharptooth.

It was a young one, actually. It was of a brown color, and around the same size of a sickleclaw. It was young because it was a long-skull sharptooth (AN: Daspletosaurus) and his species used to be around Chomper's size when full-grow. Around his tail there was a brooch with the symbol of a tree star with a sharptooth's tooth carved over it.

Lily backed away and pressed her back against the wall of the cave. What was a sharptooth doing there? The war was already over? The leaf eaters and alimons had lost?

She was expecting to the young dino to advance against her, but he didn't, he just stayed that with his hands in his hips, like admiring his work. He then said "Didn't said I could do it easily? Its ratle simple for me." He finished with pride.

Then another sharptooth stepped on sight. This one with black scales and a gray underbelly. In his head there were two crests that were a splash of red and yellow and had orange eyes. In his troath that was what seemed a brooch with the same symbol. It was two-crested sharptooth (AN: Dilophosaurus) a kind that grew around the same size as the sickleclaws, and that was surelly older than the long-skull.

"Yeah Dan." said the two-crested "I'm sorry for doubting your force and awesomeness, the order should make you the new head of the council." The long-skull turned to him and said "Ha, ah, very funny Jasper."

"Don't fight now dudes." said a voice, before another figure stepped in sight between them. It was a small creature two-legged. It had a small body, no more then around two foots, and it's face resembled the face of a threehorn, but without any horn in it, and with a beak like a parrot, it was a shieldcrest (AN: Microraptor). It was orange with a light yellow underbelly, had black eyes and a scar in its left leg, and in his neck was a ring with the symbol.

"We can't lose time with this, we came here to a mission." It said with a cheerful and masculine voice. Jasper, the two-crested, chuckled and said "Sure Jak."

Jak, the shieldcrest nodded and turned his face to the rainbow face, that was pressing her back against the extreme of the chamber, and looked frightened. "Hi." he said "We came here to free you." Lily stared at them. "Well, your boyfriend would be happy to see you when we arrive there."

Lily almost jumped at this "Nick?" Dan nodded "Yeah, others had gone to free him from the sharpteeth too. Wanna find him?" Lily hesitated. Sure, they were sharpteeth, and she didn't knew if she could trust them, but they were offering to take her back to Nick, and she wanted to see him again. She thought for a few moments and said "Take me to him."

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In another part of the valley, Nick was still bound to the boulder, his head down from tired. He was being watched carefully by two great bonecrusher sharpteeth that Chomper had put there to watch over him while he gone to the war. One of them was olive-green while the other was black with a grey underbelly and a dark strip running down his back to teh tip of his tail. But both of them looked at Nick as he was the most paltry thing in the world.

"Falling for a leaf-eater." said the olive one "Can you belive this guy? I wished we could just rip him in two already."

"Patient, Slam." said the other. "Chomper wants him alive to see that leaf-eater die in front of him. Don't you think it will be better?" Nick moved and snarled at this, but Slam, the olive, smiled and said "Yeah Tan, it will be good. I just wish they hurried up."

"They will not." came another voice, making the sharpteeth turn to face the sourche. It was a rainbow face. He had pale-green scales with red strips running down his back, his face had the same color pattern of the others of his kind, and his eyes were of a noticiable bright-pink. In his neck was a necklace with the symbol of the order

Slam took a step forward "Hey, little guy, do you really have courage to came here in the midle of the war." The raibow face only smiled "My name is Cyrix. And you don't need to do thgis anymore because the war is over."

"So you leaf eaters surrendered already?" asked Tan "This was smart." Cyrix chuckled "No, both sides decided to stop the war. And now you can free him." He said poiting to Nick "I think that he would like to be with Lily again."

Nick looked at that rainbow face. He too knew of him and Lily. HIs words were truth? Chomper had really stopped the war? Slam and Tan seemed not to believe, as they said "You're nuts? Chomper planned this for far too long to simply stop."

Cyrix laughed "Yeah, it may be a shock, but I'm sure that it happened. Now, if you were gentle enough to let this nice sickleclaw go, I'd be very grateful."

"Oh yeah?" chalenged Slam "And if we don't want to, what happens?" Cyrix loked back "Lets just say that it would not be good for your health." They shared a look, and then laughed "You will beat us? With who's help?"

Cyrix sighed, then by his side appeared a small creature. It was a dinosaur known as leaper (AN: Othnielia) because of its unusual ability to give great leaps. This one was smal, just half the size of the normal. He had scales of mottled green and brown. Was very thin and had light-blue eyes. In one of his hands there was a ring with the symbol of the order.

Slam and Tan backed away, due to the surprise of the little leaf-eater have appeared from the air. He walked up to in front of the rainbow face and said "I-if you want to have him, you'll have to go through me." It was clear by his voice and the way his body was shaking that he was afraid. The bonecrushers recovered and stepped forward "This is your only resourche? A small leaper?"

Than around the started appearing more leapers. The turned visible from thin air, ans they were all exactly equal. At all should be around 8 of them. Slam then roared and went to the leapers, them they dissapeared. He felt them something brabbing his tail. He turned to look but saw nothing. The the same leapers that he tried to bite, materialized in his tail. Slam roared in fury.

Tan was about to get in the fight, but before he could, a strem of blue fire crossed his way. He backed away and looked to the side to see a creature that had sneaked. It was a spikethumb, it's skin of the same color of the blue fire and had a line of black feathers going from its head by its back to the tip of the tail. Its eyes were shining in blue. In its head was glued a brooch that had the symbol of the order. It was a big one, around twice the size of a normal male of the species.

She looked at him with anger as her eyes shined "Big fat bad guy will not hurt my friend Majali." Right after she said those words, she created from her fingertips a burst of blue flames so hot that Tan thought that his face was going to melt, and that was strong enough to knock him back some meters.

While this, Slam was still trying to get ride of the leapers holding his tail. He moved, spinned, and went to the ground, in one of those, his tail slammed hard in the ground, hitting all the leapers, they scremed and them dissapeared in puffs of smoke. Slam smiled, but them more nine leapers jumped over him, this made him lose his balance and fall. His head hitted a rock and he lose consciousness.

Tan was dodging the burts of high-hot blue fire that the oversized spikethumb threw in him. Its heat and the fear making him sweat. She was now walking to him with blue fire enveloping her hands. Them Cyrix called "Go easy Kala. Remember that we were told to don't kill anybody." The spikethumb turned to him ajnd nodded, then the fire stoped, making Tan smile.

But them the spikethumb turned to the close river and moved her arms to the water. Soon a mass of water moved to out of the river and to her. She kept moving her arms, making the water circle around her. Then with a sharp move of her limbs tha mass of water went straight at Tan. It hit him with a streght that make him stumble down some steps.

Soon the water gone back to her and she put her hands together and enchased it in water. The water became colder and turned into ice. She then hit the sharptooth with the solidified water, making him stumble back. Then the water turned back to liquid, and went once again straight to Tan again, hitting him and sending him to the ground. Then Kala made a gesture, and the water once again became colder until freezing, and trapping him in an ice prision.

"Good work, Kala" said a voice at her feet. She looked down in time to see Majali appearing from nothing at her feet. He was smilling. Kala smiled back at him as all the other leapers dissapeared in puffs of smoke. "Keep hidding as your doubles fight, old friend?" Majali laughed "Well, we use the talents we have."

Nick stared in awe to his rescuers. Then a voice called his attention "His mouth is really agape, isn't it Minnie?" Then another voice answered "He could swallow his own foot in one bite, Minnie."

Nick looked and saw in front of him two sickleclaws. Own had the body covered in white feathrs and the tip of the tail like the tip of the tail of a peacock, on her eyeridges was a red crest. The second had grey feathers and had not the tail ornament. Both had tan scales under the feathers, kind smiles and were wearing bracelets with the symbol of the order.

Nick was surprised, but recovered and said "Sorry, I didn't saw you two, and I was really surprised. My name is Nick." Cyrix walked to him and said "We know, as I said, my name is Cyrix, those are Majali and Kala." he said pointing to the leaper and the spikethumb.

Then it was the turn of the sickleclaws "I'm Minani and she is Minaple" said the white one "But we bothare called Minnie, right Minnie?"

"Yeah Minnie." answered Minaple "And we are sisters, well, not proper sisters, are we Minnie?"

"Definitely not Minnie, but we could very well be after all, right Minnie?"

"Absolutelly Minnie."

Nick stared at them for a few moments and said "Right." Cyrix then came and said "Would you like to be free from there, and meet with Lily?" Nick stared at him, and then said "Sure. I'd like to see her again."